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de-risk your equity funds, de-risk
General
Aarati Krishnan

5 ways to de-risk your equity funds, without cashing out

one good way to de-risk your equity fund portfolio from a market fall would be to switch from funds following a momentum style of investing to those following a value or contrarian style or funds with a value-oriented approach. Value funds typically buy fundamentally sound companies that trade at a discount to their intrinsic value in the markets.

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FSN E-Commerce Ventures
Categories
Aarati Krishnan

IPO Review: FSN E-Commerce Ventures (Nykaa)

FSN E-commerce Ventures, which operates e-commerce platforms in the beauty and fashion spaces under the brand name Nykaa, is launching a Rs 5,350 crore IPO that comprises a fresh issue of shares of Rs 630 crore and an offer for sale of Rs 4,720 crore.

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Changes in our FD strategy and new FD recommendations
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Aarati Krishnan

Changes in our FD strategy and new FD recommendations

“When facts change, it is best to change your mind.” It is not clear if this pragmatic statement was made by John Maynard Keynes or Winston Churchill. But it definitely applies to the world of investing where one needs to scout for the best opportunities after factoring in constantly changing asset prices, interest rates, macroeconomic conditions and regulations.

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SDL bond opportunity
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Aarati Krishnan

How to play the SDL bond opportunity?

How to play the SDL bond opportunity?
It’s not an easy life for fixed income investors looking to earn decent yields today. With RBI regularly mopping up government securities through its G-SAP programme and also reining in yields on new issues, the 10-year government security has been caught in a range of 5.8 to 6.3 per cent for the last one year, despite elevated inflation. 

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FD, Fixed deposits, FD strategy, DICGC
Categories
Aarati Krishnan

Why your FD strategy needs a rethink

Ever since we started our coverage of FD products at PrimeInvestor, we’ve taken a very conservative approach to the entities whose deposits we recommend. Always putting capital safety over rates, our recommended list of FDs has been made up mainly of post office schemes, systemically important banks and very select NBFCs.

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1 crore, 1 crore health policy, health insurance
Categories
Aarati Krishnan

How much health insurance do you need?

Recent reports suggest that as many as 35% of health insurance buyers in recent times – mainly in their 30s and 40s – are buying Rs 1 crore health insurance plans, against just 5% who used to buy them earlier.

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Aarati Krishnan

2 bond offers playing on home loans – should you invest?

Home loans are one of the safer lending avenues for NBFCs, given that they are backed by collateral that usually appreciates in price. But does that make bond offers from two housing finance NBFCs – Piramal Capital and Housing Finance and IIFL Housing – less risky to bet on? Here’s our analysis.

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claims settlement
Insurance
Aarati Krishnan

Health Insurance: Which insurers settle your claims the best

Have you ever wondered why health insurers in India keep their claims data a closely guarded secret, while life insurers advertise it? Life insurers prominently display their claims settlement ratios of 98% or 99%, but health insurance pitches are full of emotional testimonials on how ‘timely’ payouts saved the life of a near-and-dear one.

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multibaggers
Stocks
Aarati Krishnan

5 things they don’t tell you about finding multibaggers

With the bull market in full swing, there’s no dearth of investors, trading platforms and fintech firms out to convince you that making money from equities is a breeze.
Ads for a fintech firm show folks who can’t manage everyday stuff like shopping, exercising or keeping to a diet, trading in stocks as easy as pie.
Newly sprung up investing gurus tell you that all you need to do to earn untold riches, is to identify a bunch of ‘quality’ stocks and invest in them robotically.

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claim rejection
Categories
Aarati Krishnan

Why your health insurance claim may be rejected

Today, many personal finance articles tell you that one of the biggest personal finance take-aways from Covid is that everyone ought to sign up for a generous health insurance cover. But they fail to include the statutory warning that must come with every such plug – “Don’t expect your hospital bills to be settled in full”.
Prompted by real-life experiences of many investors who had filed claims for Covid treatment, PrimeInvestor conducted a Twitter dipstick survey in the last week of May on the claims settlement experience of policyholders.

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reit taxation
General
Aarati Krishnan

How are REITs taxed?

Many investors are attracted to Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) because they seem to offer best of both the worlds – regular income payouts like bonds and the prospect of capital appreciation like equities. But what about REIT Taxation?

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evaluating REITs
Markets
Aarati Krishnan

How to choose the best REIT

This is Part II of our series on REITs. You can find the first part here. Apart from a secret passion for owning real estate,

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