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Will your Rs 12-lakh salary enjoy ‘nil’ tax even with additional STCG income? Here’s what experts say
Chartered accountants differ on a salaried taxpayer’s eligibility for the tax rebate if her total income—including special rate income such as short-term capital gains—is over Rs 12 lakh but the salary component itself does not exceed the threshold. The income tax department ought to explicitly clarify its position on the rule, they say.
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What Budget 2025 means for salaried taxpayers, senior citizens and investors
Tax measures announced in Budget 2025 will have a wide-ranging impact on individual taxpayers across income brackets, as also senior citizens, students and outbound travellers.
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How will Budget 2025 impact fixed income investments, debt funds?
Post the budget, India's 10-Year benchmark yield was trading 0.016 percent higher, at 6.694 percent.
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Centre plans to make disclosure of transactions mandatory for crypto exchanges
The government has now proposed to insert section 285BAA in the Act, which make it compulsory to furnish transaction information of crypto assets.
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Don’t panic and go extra heavy on largecaps; but follow multicap approach, says Edelweiss MF CEO Radhika Gupta
In an interview with Moneycontrol, Gupta talked about the investment strategy of the newly launched Edelweiss Consumption Fund, her expectations from Union Budget 2025 and the launch of new innovative themes by mutual fund houses.
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How the next-gen of affluent families are managing their wealth
Family offices have evolved from being an enabler boosting the financial wealth of families to building a resilient family enterprise. They have also enabled young generation to seek adventurous investments and make their names by betting on ventures that are looking to solve real-world problems.
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Trump's ban on birthright citizenship: EB-5 Visa demand from Indians may see a sharp uptick
US birthright citizenship: The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program allows a non-US investor applicant and their immediate family members to gain US permanent residency status and receive a Green Card.
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2025 will be the year of accumulation, best time to be an investor, says Mirae's Swarup Mohanty
Budgetary allocation for healthcare and education must rise if India aspires to become a manufacturing hub, the Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India) CEO tells Moneycontrol in an interview
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Mutual funds must disclose 'risk adjusted returns'. Why RAR is better than CAGR and how will it help investors
RAR tells investors how much risk was taken by a fund to deliver certain returns and how consistently were those returns delivered. The metric, however, cannot be a one-stop solution for selecting a fund, say experts
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Mind The Gap: Fund manager of Rs 66,000-cr scheme warns of potential earnings mismatch
Roshi Jain, Senior Fund Manager at HDFC AMC, also talks about her outlook for Indian equities and sectoral focus this year.
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Can CoinSwitch’s Rs 600-crore plan help WazirX investors recover their losses?
CoinSwitch Cares offer three types of rewards to investors who deposit funds on the platform. Signup and Referral Rewards are capped at Rs 25,000, while Revenue Redistribution will kick in once WazirX starts disbursing the liquid assets that are stuck on the platform.
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After raising Rs 80,000 cr in 2024, will active thematic and sectoral NFOs take a breather?
Since May 2024, thematic and sectoral fund category saw at least Rs 10,000 crore net inflows in each of the months. However, with markets under pressure, inflows plunged during October and November
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Equity fund inflows jump 15% to Rs 41,156 cr in Dec, SIP book tops Rs 26,000 cr mark: AMFI
Overall, open-ended mutual funds saw net outflows worth Rs 80,509.20 crore in December against Rs 60,363.70 crore inflows in November.
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Budget 2025: Why tax relief for debt funds tops wish list of mutual fund industry
The Finance Act, 2023 said that debt funds should be deemed as short-term capital gains, irrespective of period of holding and the same will be taxable at the applicable rates.
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Top Sectors for 2025: Pharma, infra look good; defence seems overvalued
Since sectoral funds tend to perform in cycles, a diversified flexicap fund may be a good choice, as it offers fund managers the flexibility to adapt to changing conditions across market caps.
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G-Secs may retain the shine in 2025, but equities likely to slow down, say fixed-income experts
Bond market-watchers recommend investments in Indian government bonds as well as AAA-rated CPSE bonds maturing in 5- to 15-years with a two-year investment horizon
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Year-ender 2024: Thematic and multi-cap strategies of PMSes top the returns chart
Year-ender 2024: Investments into PMS funds have grown steadily over the past one year and assets of the industry has grown 20 per cent year-on-year to Rs 36 lakh crore as of October 31, 2024, data shows.
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Firms close to IPOs are seeing good interest from rich Indians: Sandipan Roy
In an interview with Moneycontrol, Roy talks about how investing style of UHNIs have changed over the years, what innovative investment solutions they are looking at and risky trends in this space.
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Explainer | Specialised investment fund: How this new asset class will work and help investors
The new asset class. positioned between MFs and PMSes. will open different investment products and approaches to Indian investors.
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Invested Rs 1 lakh in stocks, debt, gold, real estate in Jan 2024? Check how your money has grown
Over the past decade, equity has been the top-performing asset on five different occasions. Gold, too, took the top spot for four years, data shows.
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All-round mutual fund show: Defence, mid-cap, long-duration, silver funds, all turn chart toppers in 2024
In the diversified equity funds category, midcaps and smallcaps outperformed, while largecaps lagged. In the sectoral/thematic space, pharma, infrastructure and PSUs were the outliers, with the MNC category falling behind.
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Equity fund inflows fall 14% to Rs 35,943 crore in November, large-cap funds demand dips: AMFI
Equity Mutual Funds: During November, monthly investments via SIPs came in at Rs 25,320 crore against Rs 25,323 crore in October.
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There is still value in long-term bonds, says Avnish Jain of Canara Robeco MF
Investors may be better off with active debt funds, according to Avnish Jain, head, fixed income, Canara Robeco Asset Management Company.
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RBI holds repo rate again. Here’s what fixed-income investors should do
Experts say CRR cut is a positive move and recommend an increase in exposure to long-duration bonds to take advantage of the potential capital appreciation, as bond prices rise with falling yields
