The pandemic situation in India has worsened over the past few weeks. With the world’s highest-ever surge at 3.32 lakh reported on April 22, India’s active COVID-19 cases have breached the 24 lakh mark. Experts believe that we are at least 3-4 weeks away from reaching the peak of second wave. Many parts of the…
In the past, small-cap stocks have faced various hurdles such as demonetization, mutual fund categorization, economic slowdown, etc. which led to the underperformance of the category. Now the second wave of COVID-19 and renewed lockdown restrictions pose a threat to its growth potential. Though the small-cap stocks made a significant recovery from the last year’s…
It’s been a tough time for conservative investors looking to deploy their hard-earned money. The interest rates on bank fixed deposits and coupons on bonds have fallen substantially over the last one year. Debt funds have started yielding lower returns. Gone are the days when Liquid Funds earned returns at the rate of 6-7% p.a.…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our relationship with digital technology has been rapidly growing. As a result of the pandemic, there was an inevitable surge in the usage of digital technologies to comply with social distancing norms and nationwide lockdowns. Many organizations and educational institutions made a shift to work-from-home with the help of innovative…
The most favored option of many risk-averse investors is to invest in Bank saving account and/or fixed deposits, as it is a convenient hassle-free, low risk avenue and can generate decent returns over a period of time. However, with the changing investment environment and considerable fall in FD interest rates that reduced considerably from 8-10%…
The second wave of COVID-19 infections is affecting India badly. The daily new cases have crossed over 2 lakh and the situation could get worse, potentially derailing India’s economic recovery given the lockdowns and curfew imposed (to contain the spread of the virus) particularly in states that are major contributors to India’s GDP. Maharashtra alone accounts…
Although most investors are familiar with the two main types of mutual funds: actively managed and passively managed funds, Quant funds is a different category that many investors may be interested to explore. Quant funds are a hybrid of passive and active funds that rely primarily on an automated system. Quant funds are rules-based equity-oriented…
Contra Funds are a subset of value style funds. As the name suggests, these funds take on an ‘against the herd’ approach on stocks and sectors that are temporarily going through a rough phase where their performance is affected and have distortions in their valuations. The category aims to capitalise on these distortions and take contrarian bets to…
The second wave of COVID-19 is not showing any signs of a slowdown yet. India now stands 2nd among the worst affected countries by active cases and 1st in daily new cases. For the economy, it is déjà vu all over again – health infrastructure getting overwhelmed, rising instances of job loss, businesses being shut,…
We witnessed the novel coronavirus infection peak in September 2020 on home soil; and from there on cases started to decline steadily even as many other nations continued to report an escalation. Consequently, many restrictions were lifted and it seemed like we would soon achieve victory over the deadly virus. But the expression, “Don’t celebrate…
