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India Interim Budget FY25 – Continued Emphasis on Capex and Fiscal Consolidation

Jiral Mehta

Key Highlights 1. Continuing on the path of Fiscal Consolidation   Projected fiscal deficit at 5.1% of GDP for FY25 – in line with the original fiscal consolidation glide path…Continue Reading

India Budget FY24 – Balanced with Focus on Capex & Fiscal Consolidation

Arun Kumar

Key Highlights 1. Continuing on the path of Fiscal Consolidation   Projected fiscal deficit at 5.9% of GDP for FY24 – in line with the fiscal consolidation glide path – to…Continue Reading

India Budget FY23: Pro-Growth Budget With Focus On Capital Expenditure

Arun Kumar

A budget focused on investment led growth with higher spending on capital expenditure and no major surprises or shocks.  Key Highlights 1. Significant Focus on Capex Higher than expected increase…Continue Reading

Is it good to be Risk-Seeking or Risk-Averse?

G. Vetrivel

This question would have arisen in the minds of all investors at some part of their investment journey. I would like to try giving a solution to this question. To…Continue Reading

Budget 2020-21

India Budget 2020-21 – Conservative and Incremental

Arun Kumar

Given the context of an economic slowdown, expectations were high for strong growth measures to revive the economy. The budget was predominantly ‘incremental’ in nature sticking to a fiscally conservative…Continue Reading

Union Budget 2019

Key Takeaways from the Union Budget 2019

FundsIndia Desk

This being an election year, the Union Government had only declared an interim budget in February. The final union budget 2019 was presented by the new finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman,…Continue Reading

Budget 2018 impact – Why ELSS still scores over PPF

Gourav Kumar

After the 2018 budget imposed a 10% tax on long-term capital gains from equity last month, there was a debate whether ELSS still remains the best investment option to save…Continue Reading

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Budget 2018 Impact: Are equity funds still attractive?

Ashwini Arulrajhan

While there was much talk about bringing back the Long Term Capital Gains tax on equity instruments, the Union Budget 2018 still managed to surprise us by the way in…Continue Reading

New tax structure of mutual funds

Mutual Fund Research Desk

The Union Budget 2018 has changed taxation rules for equity-oriented mutual funds. Taxation of all other funds (debt funds, debt-oriented hybrid, gold, international, fund-of-funds) remains the same as before. Here’s…Continue Reading

Budget 2018

Budget 2018 leaves little for markets to focus on

Mutual Fund Research Desk

One of the signs of a maturing economy is that the Nation’s budget becomes just a year-end accounting and budgeting job. While India may not be there yet, that there…Continue Reading