The sudden shut down of six debt schemes by Franklin Templeton mutual fund has shaken the confidence of investors in debt funds. The event has come as a shock to investors who ofte ... Read more
The sudden shut down of six debt schemes by Franklin Templeton mutual fund has shaken the confidence of investors in debt funds. The event has come as a shock to investors who often use these funds to earn some extra returns over and above what they could earn from bank fixed deposits. The event has once again highlighted the inherent risks in debt funds. Read more
The COVID-19 lockdown brought in a wave of fear among debt fund investors who redeemed large sums of money from the funds holding low rated paper. The surge in redemptions forced d ... Read more
The COVID-19 lockdown brought in a wave of fear among debt fund investors who redeemed large sums of money from the funds holding low rated paper. The surge in redemptions forced debt funds to borrow money to honour the redemptions. This is because they were unable to sell their holdings, in a market that had become illiquid. On April 23rd, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund froze 6 debt schemes with a corpus around Rs 26,000 crore and announced their winding up. To calm down investors, RBI announced a special liquidity on the 27th. What is the facility all about and will it solve the problem? Mint explains Read more
Employees across most industries are experiencing one of the three situations— indefinite leave without pay, deep pay cuts or layoffs. Salary cuts and job loss definitely means cha ... Read more
Employees across most industries are experiencing one of the three situations— indefinite leave without pay, deep pay cuts or layoffs. Salary cuts and job loss definitely means changing the way you live and spend, but you need to play smart to tide over the situation with minimum pain. On this episode, Mint's Disha Sanghvi tells you how to deal with the two situations. Read more
The lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of uncertainties. Businesses are losing money and salaried and facing pay cut or job losses. Due to this, it is expected ... Read more
The lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of uncertainties. Businesses are losing money and salaried and facing pay cut or job losses. Due to this, it is expected that banks would be extra cautious to lend. They are going to make their lending criteria stringent. Listen in as Mint's Tinesh Bhasin on how the pandemic has impacted the retail loan segment. Read more
As the world is fighting with the pandemic, Coronavirus, the stock markets across the world have witnessed huge corrections in the past two months, severely denting the financial p ... Read more
As the world is fighting with the pandemic, Coronavirus, the stock markets across the world have witnessed huge corrections in the past two months, severely denting the financial portfolios of many. There has been a spike in the bond yields which has resulted in losses to investors of debt instruments such as debt mutual funds. However, there is one asset class that has delivered positive returns for the investors this year so far and that is gold. Let’s understand why gold has done well this year and how you can benefit from it. Read more
Subscribers of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) are now allowed to withdraw a portion of their retirement savings to beat any liquidity crunch arising out of the C ... Read more
Subscribers of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) are now allowed to withdraw a portion of their retirement savings to beat any liquidity crunch arising out of the COVID-19 lockdown. Mint's Disha Sanghvi takes you through the withdrawal process Read more
In order to provide relief to borrowers who could be facing liquidity issues due to the country wide lockdown, the Reserve Bank of India announced few measure last Friday. One of ... Read more
In order to provide relief to borrowers who could be facing liquidity issues due to the country wide lockdown, the Reserve Bank of India announced few measure last Friday. One of them which gathered a lot of attention was the three-month moratorium on EMIs on different loans. However, there are various queries people have regarding the moratorium. Here are the answers to some of the common queries. Read more
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the globe. The country-wide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus could have extreme repercussions on the economy, resulting in possible job cu ... Read more
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the globe. The country-wide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus could have extreme repercussions on the economy, resulting in possible job cuts. While these are trying times, the pandemic should be a nudge for you to buy an individual health policy and not just bank on what your employer provides. Listen in as Mint's Disha Sanghvi explains why. Read more
Data from Kuvera about Nifty 50 returns from 1990 to 2019 tell us about what sort of returns investors have historically got after market corrections. Read more
Data from Kuvera about Nifty 50 returns from 1990 to 2019 tell us about what sort of returns investors have historically got after market corrections. Read more
Taher Badshah of Invesco Mutual Fund gives Neil Borate his views on how attractive market valuations are after the more than 20% correction in the past month. He also tells us, why ... Read more
Taher Badshah of Invesco Mutual Fund gives Neil Borate his views on how attractive market valuations are after the more than 20% correction in the past month. He also tells us, why Invesco Contra Fund has outperformed its benchmark and peers. Read more
