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IPO action
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Aarati Krishnan

Fund review: For a bite of the IPO action

Indiaโ€™s IPO market has been throwing up many money-making opportunities lately. But for retail investors trying to get in on a piece of the action, bidding in IPOs is a frustrating exercise. But if youโ€™re set on investing in IPOs, hereโ€™s a workaround through the mutual fund route.

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How to invest in debt funds
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Vidya Bala

Prime Strategy: How to invest in debt funds now?

Prime Strategy: How to invest in debt funds now?
If you had invested in an ultra-short debt fund like Axis Treasury Advantage 3 years ago, your returns would be 7.3% CAGR now. Not bad at all by todayโ€™s standards, right? If you invested in the same fund 2 years ago in November 2019, your returns would be 6% – still not terrible. But what if you had invested in this fund just a year ago?

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de-risk your equity funds, de-risk
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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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One 97 Communications (Paytm)
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Bhavana Acharya

IPO Review : One 97 Communications (Paytm)

Rs 18,300 crore. This monumental sum is what One 97 Communications Limited, which owns the Paytm platform, aims to mop up in the largest-ever IPO in our markets. To put it in perspective, it is almost twice the size of the largest IPO this year (Zomato at Rs 9375 cr), and as much as the 3 IPOs that we covered recently (Nykaa, FinoBank and PolicyBazaar) combined.

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will the correction continue
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B Krishnakumar

Technical outlook: Nifty 50 โ€“ will the correction continue?

In our previous post on the outlook for the Nifty 50 index, we had shared the view that the Nifty 50 index could get into a short-term correction. In that post, in addition to the Nifty 50 trends, we had also made a mention of three sector indices โ€“ the Nifty IT index, Nifty FMCG & Nifty Bank โ€“ that could be instrumental in triggering short-term corrections.ย 

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PB Fintech, Policybazaar, paisabazaar
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Vidya Bala

IPO review: PB Fintech (Policybazaar) โ€“ Should you invest?

At a time when the revenue models for many fintech startups are ambiguous, PB Fintech –ย  the company that houses Policybazaar and Paisabazaar – stands out. It has a clear revenue model driven by scalability that will likely pave the path to profits!

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fino payments bank
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N V Chandrachoodamani

IPO Review: Fino Payments Bank Ltd

Fino Payments Bank arrives in the market today with an IPO – a public issue of Rs.1,200 crore comprising fresh issue of shares worth Rs.300 crore and offer for sale of shares worth Rs.900 crore by promoter, Fino Paytech, at a price band of Rs. 560-577 per share.ย  The issue opens on October 29 and closes on November 2. The proceeds from the fresh issue will go towards augmenting the capital base of the bank.ย 

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FSN E-Commerce Ventures
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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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Are equity markets overheated
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N V Chandrachoodamani

Are equity markets overheated?

Are equity markets overheated?ย  Is it time to book profits or is it actually a good time to invest given the exuberance? These may be just some of the questions running through the minds of investors.ย  This article delves into various factors to assess whether the stock market is indeed over-valued, what could go wrong with markets at rich valuations and what investors can do to protect their wealth.

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credit rating
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R Balakrishnan

What they donโ€™t tell you about credit ratings

I was privileged to be part of the beginnings of the credit rating industry in India. From being an unwanted pest in its early days, the industry is now the favourite whipping boy for regulators and investors, who have blindfolded themselves with wrong notions about the role of credit rating agencies.

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tata group
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N V Chandrachoodamani

Prime update: The Tata groupโ€™s โ€˜clean energyโ€™ club

The Tata group recently announced the investment of global PE major TPG (formerly Texas Pacific Group) in the electric vehicle (EV) arm of Tata Motors at a valuation of $9.1 billion (about Rs.68,000 crore) recently. Not surprisingly, the stock of Tata Motors soared 25% on the day of the deal announcement.

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Mutual funds & ETFs
Bhavana Acharya

Prime Recommendation: A fund to move with the market

With the Sensex hurtling past the 60,000-mark and showing few signs of slowing down, you may be getting increasingly jittery about stock markets. If youโ€™re wondering where in this market to invest and how to move with the market, then we have an option.

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