Category: Research Desk
VIX as a Predictor
August 18, 2020What is VIX? VIX is a volatility index which measures the market’s expectation of volatility or price range over the near term. India VIX is a volatility benchmark based on…Continue Reading
What Should I Do About My Equity Exposure?
August 7, 2020Some Concerns Running In Your Mind… Concern 1: Bear markets usually have a lot of false upside rallies. What if this turns out to be one? As seen from previous…Continue Reading
Why Is The Equity Market Up While The Economy Is Down?
July 25, 2020Bad news all around.. Coronavirus still not under control.. While the outbreak appears to be under control in European Union, the United States is currently facing a resurgence of new…Continue Reading
6 Eccentric People Who Can Change The Way You Approach Gilt Funds
July 8, 2020In recent times, we have been receiving a lot of queries on – Is it the right time to invest in Gilt funds? Instead of straight away revealing our views,…Continue Reading
Time to Get Active on Passive Funds?
June 25, 2020Globally, as a majority of the actively-managed funds have been underperforming their benchmark indices for a long time, investor money has been flowing into low-cost passive (or index) funds. In…Continue Reading
Should You Invest In Gold?
June 10, 2020Wow or Oops! Let us look at the recent Gold ETF returns.. Wow! We need to invest in Gold ETF 🙂 But hang on. Let us rewind 1 year back..…Continue Reading
Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow about Indian Debt Mutual Funds
May 7, 2020Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow 3 Simple Questions Here are three simple questions. Let us see how quickly you can answer these questions. You are a participant in a race.…Continue Reading
Franklin Templeton winds up 6 Credit Risk Oriented Debt Funds. What does this mean for you?
April 24, 2020What happened? Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has decided to wind up (read as permanently shut down) the following 6 schemes and return the money back to investors albeit with a…Continue Reading
Why are my debt fund returns volatile these days?
April 17, 2020Given the backdrop of frequent defaults and downgrades in several credit risk oriented funds over the last one year, it is natural to be concerned about the recent volatility in…Continue Reading
Should you wait till things settle down?
April 8, 2020Given the recent sharp decline in equity markets, it is natural for us to extrapolate this trend to the near future. Add to it, the concerns regarding the safety of…Continue Reading
