Debt Market
PROFIT BOOKING IN G SECS
I had started recommending investing in G Sec schemes on weekly basis since July 29’2011. I had reiterated this call on various dates viz. August 09’2011 & September 14’2011 & giving reasons for my belief as to why GILT yields will ease off inspite of several rate hikes by RBI during this period. I had [...]
MY RECOMMENDATIONS
I have been recommending various debt schemes from January onwards including investments in GILT schemes on a systematic basis. These schemes were recommended based on some long term strategies which were being followed by these AMCs & have worked successfully even in rising interest rate scenarios. During this period from January to November, RBI raised [...]
TEMPLETON INDIA CORPORATE BOND OPPORTUNITIES FUND – NFO
Franklin Templeton is one Fund House which has given solutions at every bucket of the yield curve. All that the investor needs to do is identify the investment horizon of their cash flow and plug it in with one of the schemes of Franklin Templeton keeping in mind their average maturities and exit load issues. [...]
PARTICIPATE IN EQUITY PERFORMANCE WITHOUT LOSING SLEEP
For a long time I have been recommending investing in equity mutual fund schemes either thru strategy of Systematic Investment Plan or Systematic Transfer Plan. Intention of these strategies was to avoid taking SENSEX calls or stock specific calls and create an average which will over longer periods (read 3-5 years) work in favour of [...]
HERD MENTALITY
Most of the times advise on an asset class comes when the story is already over or behind us. Invariably an investment call on an asset class comes based only on returns chart. However, what people fail to understand is that when an asset class gives superlative returns, one needs to have a relook at [...]