When we Indians start earning for the first time, the first brush with savings happens via EPF deductions. Your salary is automatically deducted and some amount goes towards your EPF corpus. Then comes the first tax-saving season. When we wake…
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Can Nifty reach 1 lakh? Ofcourse it can. Currently, it is around 16,500. Ofcourse there are many other smaller targets like Nifty@20,000 and Nifty@25,000 and Nifty@50,000 and Nifty@75,000 and then comes Nifty@100000. I recently heard a noted investor of India…
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Recently, I was talking to a relative about how he managed money when I realized that despite being young, he was somehow not too convinced about the potential of equity for long-term wealth creation. So I thought I will try…
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If you invest in direct stocks or mutual funds, I am sure you would have received tons of unsolicited bulk SMS with texts like hot stock tip, next multibagger stock pick, sure-shot bet, double your money in 15 days, insider…
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Note – This is a guest post by Ajay. He has previously written on this topic (links in later part of the post) and now updates his thoughts on the basis of 2021 data. Ajay has also authored other interesting…
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How to earn regular income from high dividend stocks? For many, this is a dream. To have a large enough portfolio of stocks and live happily ever after on dividend income. I love dividends too. In fact, it was dividends…
We all know Nifty 50 index constituents are regularly updated (once every 6 months, see details here). Over a period of time, these small occasional changes have led to a big change in Nifty. So the Nifty50 of the year…
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Recently, there was a lot of noise on social channels about the rise in the number of unicorns from India ("Unicorn" is a term used to describe a startup company with a value of more than $1 billion). Here is…
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So another financial year has come to a close. So if you want to know answers to question like what was Sensex returns in FY2020-21 or Nifty returns in FY2020-21, then here is a comparative analysis of Sensex Financial Year…
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Do you want to know about the Biggest Single Day Falls in Sensex? So you are at the right place. Let me share some details of the biggest Sensex Falls in history in one day. Or as many would like…
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Do you want to know about the Biggest Single Day Falls in Nifty? So you are at the right place. Let me share some details of the biggest Nifty Falls in history in one day. Or as many would like…
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Quite a few IPOs are lined up and have been coming thick and fast in recent times. And more importantly, many of them are witnessing significant oversubscriptions. That in itself is a clear sign that appetite for IPOs is rising…
Very recently, the Sensex crossed 50,000 - a psychologically important number for many. As soon as that happened, investors are now becoming greedy for more. So, thrown out are the discussions about what has happened, i.e. Sensex@50,000 (Sensex@50K) and new…
The Sensex has been flirting with the psychological level of 50,000 for some time now and has been quite volatile in recent weeks. Even though 50,000 is just a number, the fact that the market is up 100% since March…
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SEBI is contemplating introducing the concept of ‘Accredited Investors’ in the Indian securities market. This is still at the consultation stage as detailed in this notification (link or download here). Globally, this is a pretty common concept in developed markets.…
