ICICI Securities, Motilal Oswal, Zerodha, Kuvera… Be a full-fledged broking house or a discount broker, all are being too ambitious and competing to offer overseas trading facilities at minimal cost. Courtesy to new generation platforms like Vested Finance or interactive brokers, savvy investors are jumping in to tap this opportunity. Let’s rewind back to 2009, […]
Stocks ( Equity )
What is an Uncorrelated Investment Portfolio? | Importance of Non-correlated Assets in Portfolio Diversification
Stocks, Mutual Funds, Fixed Deposits, Bonds, Real estate, Gold etc., are various Asset Classes that are popular among the investor community. All of us would like to invest in as many Asset classes as possible. Am I right? But why? Because, we want to spread our Capital across different asset classes to reduce the overall […]
Stock Margin Pledge Rules 2020 – SEBI’s new norms | What is Margin Trading & Stock Pledging?
SEBI has recently come up with tighter margin norms and new pledge system for the stock margin trading transactions. This has been the talk of the town among the stock market trading community. In this post, let’s discuss – What is Margin Trading? What is the existing process of Margin trading or funding and proposed […]
Aftermath of ‘Karvy Stock Broking mess’, are your Mutual Fund investments safe?
We are all aware of the fact that ‘mutual funds are subject to various market risks‘. This is because there is no way to predict what will happen in the future (or) whether a given asset will increase or decrease in value. Because the market cannot be accurately predicted or completely controlled, no investment is 100% risk-free. As a mutual […]
Top 15 Best Mutual Funds to invest in 2020 & beyond | Top Performing Equity Funds
In India mutual fund industry’s asset under management (AUM) has been growing at a rapid pace. The total AUM has reached around Rs 25.50 lakh crore in August 2019. The asset under management of Debt, Equity and Hybrid schemes at the end of August 2019 stood at Rs 13.22 lakh crore, Rs 7.16 lakh crore […]
My Latest Stock Portfolio | Direct Equity Investments (Shares)
It’s been exactly 15 years since I have been tracking the Indian Stock Markets. My first investment in stock markets was in Ashok Leyland scrip in 2004. I remained invested in this stock for just 3 days only. I would have monitored the price of this stock for atleast 100 times over those 3 days. I vaguely […]