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Gold is a dynamic asset class with several price determinants. These price movers might include central bank interest rates, global inflation, Treasury yields, US dollar movement, global conflicts, and so on. During times of uncertainty, investors all over the world often rush to the apparent safety of gold, as risk assets (such as equities) experience declines. …
Investing in debt mutual funds may be a complex activity. It involves a thorough grasp of bond markets, interest rate cycles, macroeconomic emotions, and central bank monetary policies. In this blog-post, we’ll look at the key details that investors need to be aware of while investing in debt mutual funds. Any debt fund investor just wants capital preservation and somewhat …
From April 2020 to March 2023, Indian household financial savings totaled Rs. 86.2 lakh crore. Of this, 31.6 lakh crore went into fixed deposits with banks and other financial institutions, while 5.1 lakh crore went into mutual funds and equities, accounting for around 6% of the total movement. That is, just 6% has been invested in mutual funds …
The rather simple answer to this question is “Do absolutely nothing”. The same is true whether stock prices are falling or the market is erratically moving. Of all, you’re a mutual fund investor, not a stock trader. You pay a partial sum of money to the fund company as costs, notably for managing your money. If you …
Say you have a goal of purchasing a house in 5 years and another goal of your child’s higher education in 10 years. You would normally invest in a 5-year bank recurrent deposit (RD) and an exchange-traded fund (ETF) for the 1st goal. Likewise, you will invest in a 10-year RD and a different ETF …
The PE ratio (price to earnings ratio) of a company is 20. Then, you may be wondering if that company’s share price is cheap or expensive? The short answer to this is – “Well, it depends on few things, or in fact on many things”. This typical answer is defined as ‘relative valuation’. According to …
As a disclaimer, I do not want any untoward incident to happen in any person’s life, but we also need to be a bit practical and be prepared for any eventualities in our life (and do not consider me as a negative person for writing this blog-post). The Covid pandemic inflicted a devastating blow to …
While the vast majority of Indians are monetarily unprepared for retirement, many are actually unaware of the gravity of the situation. According to a poll, just 20% of individuals believe that real retirement planning should begin before the age of 30, and many of them have no clue how much retirement corpus they would need when …
This is one of my favourite write-ups on personal finance and my increases my curiosity to understand the current generation’s thoughts on costly leveraged purchases (sometimes myself as well!). First of all, let us try to understand what is a ‘Leveraged spending’. For retail consumers such as ourselves, ‘leveraged spending’ means using debt or borrowed …
‘Sequence of returns’ risk refers to the possibility of your portfolio experiencing negative returns later on in your working years and/or early in your retirement years. This risk arises from the order in which your investment returns take place. It is especially important in the five years before and five years following retirement, known as …