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Life stage financial planning: Time to get serious about money in your 30s
In your 30s, you can afford to aggressively invest in equities. Take a home loan only if you can afford it, else it’s best to stay on rent till your late 40s
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Life stage financial planning: How to manage money in your 20s
After a few years, when you see your money grow, you’ll be glad you started early
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Roopa Venkatakrishnan on why equities are must-haves in our portfolios
Roopa doesn’t prefer to switch funds even if they go through turbulence, if she is convinced it’s temporary
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Shifali Satsangee on diversifying into equities; not just gold and fixed deposits
Agra was a real estate driven market, where most investments went into traditional asset classes such as gold and fixed deposits
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IIFL AMC case: Should you be worried when a fund house staff is caught while front running shares?
IIFL AMC recently suspended an employee who was caught by SEBI for front running. It helps if your fund house implements strong surveillance systems and discourages such corrupt market practices
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Why do-it-yourself investors must avoid balanced advantage funds
If you manage your finances on your own, it’s best to do your asset-allocation through separate equity and debt funds
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ICICI Prudential ESG new fund offer: Should you invest?
With more awareness, ESG investing is expected to become mainstream
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Will Sundaram Mutual’s third attempt at rolling out a large-cap fund click?
With no other diversified large-cap scheme in its basket, the AMC has now rolled out a Bluechip Fund
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Fundsgate: Is SEBI’s net worth barrier too high for investment advisers to vault?
One way out is that individual RIAs could merge with one another to form a corporate RIA, thereby sharing their net worth burden
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SEBI’s RIA norms: How the client-investment advisor relationship is set to change
If you go to an RIA for financial planning and investing advice, here’s how your relationship will change
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Fundsgate: When mutual funds play god
Franklin Templeton isn’t the only fund house to decide what’s best for the investor.
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In pushing own group’s mutual funds, are banks shortchanging customers?
Investors need to grill their relationship managers on the choice of schemes
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Where to invest Rs 10 lakh now, according to top money managers
Moneycontrol asked some seasoned mutual fund CEOs and financial advisors about their investment preferences
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Your registered financial advisor can either advise or sell mutual funds; not both
In a step down from its earlier proposal, Sebi has allowed investment advisors to decide charges.
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Half-time scorecard: How much did asset classes deliver in 2020?
Gold has given close to 24 per cent returns so far this year
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Moneycontrol-CRISIL SIP study: The secret behind maximising SIP returns
Moneycontrol tied up with CRISIL Research to crunch the numbers and data pertaining to returns delivered over many years to analyse if equity fund SIPs have indeed delivered
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Yoga and wealth: An 8-fold path to financial nirvana
Today is international yoga day. And the reality is that the approaches to achieving the goals of investing and Yoga have many parallels
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Franklin Templeton India crisis | Supreme Court transfers all cases to Karnataka High Court
The Supreme Court Court refused to interfere in Franklin Templeton's debt schemes wind-up case as the matter is still being heard in lower courts
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Franklin Templeton crisis: Delhi petitioners apply to join hands with their Ahmedabad counterparts at Gujarat HC
They withdrew their plea against the fund house before the Supreme Court today
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Franklin Templeton crisis: Is Gujarat HC’s stay on voting in investors’ interest?
The petitioners have sought to set aside the fund house’s decision of winding up the schemes
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As MFs slowly open branch shutters, online inflows continue smoothly
Physical transactions account for only 25-27 percent of the MF industry’s inflows
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Franklin Templeton crisis: Affected investors to vote and decide if fund trustees or Deloitte will liquidate the schemes
The fund house had already appointed Kotak Mahindra Bank to assist it in liquidating the schemes
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Will SEBI’s rap push Franklin Templeton to refund investors’ money sooner?
Investors have no choice but to wait till the fund house manages to sell the illiquid securities in its schemes
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MF distributors’ body to RBI: Set up SPV to buy illiquid bonds directly from fund houses
This method will help Franklin Templeton offload some of its securities faster, says FIFA
