Stocks
Prime Stock update: Prospects brighten for our small finance bank call
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N V Chandrachoodamani
February 19, 2023
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PrimeInvestor - Articles and Reports
Taxes
How is your insurance policy taxed?
Some of us may be hoarse from shouting about why tax benefits should not be the reason we buy insurance. Shouting notwithstanding, tax treatment remains a key consideration when buying insurance of almost any sort and this is what we look at in this article.
There are two points in time when the tax aspect will have to be kept in mind:
First at the time of premium payment
Second, at the time of a payout in the form of a claim being met or maturity benefits being paid out.
Pavithra Jaivant
February 16, 2023
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Stocks
Governance: 8 checks to assess management quality
The Adani saga (still continuing, I guess) brings forth the issue of governance, management quality, and other qualitative factors that many investors consider as essential check boxes. During the time I spent in CRISIL, ‘management quality’ would set a cap on ratings. But what is ‘management quality’?
R Balakrishnan
February 14, 2023
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Markets
Technical outlook: Outlook now for the Nifty 50
In this post, we shall discuss a brief short-term technical outlook for the Nifty 50 index and some interesting statistics which will be a follow-through to what we discussed in the previous post. Let us get started with the short-term technical outlook.
B Krishnakumar
February 12, 2023
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Mutual funds & ETFs
FAQs: What does the recent rate hike mean for your debt funds?
We bet you must be tired of hearing about rate hikes and debt funds and strategies! But if your queries, comments and activity on our newly-launched PrimeInvestor Community are any indications, there are still several questions many of you have over your funds.
So, here’s collecting them all and explaining what you should be doing with your debt funds and if you need to do anything different in light of the latest round of rate hikes.
Bhavana Acharya
February 9, 2023
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Taxes
Is the Budget 2023 disincentivizing savings?
The trending narrative post the Budget 2023 proposal is that the Budget is disincentivizing savings. The argument goes like this: if the Budget is nudging individuals to move to the New Tax Regime, it likely means that it may eventually phase out many of the deductions available under the Old Tax Regime. Tax incentive is a major consideration for Indians to save.
Vidya Bala
February 5, 2023
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Taxes
Budget 2023 – Impact on your investments & the market
In this final budget before the elections, there is little by way of big-bang announcements. There are, however, several announcements in the Budget 2023 that do bear implications. There are two aspects to the Budget impact – on one side, there are the provisions that impact your investments and taxes specifically. On the other, there are proposals that have a bearing on prospects for different sectors. Therefore, we’ve broken down our Budget 2023 analysis along these lines.
PrimeInvestor Research Team
February 2, 2023
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Bonds & Deposits
Should you go for the 4-5-year special deposit schemes from NBFCs now?
With popular NBFCs such as Sundaram Finance, HDFC and Bajaj Finance revising their deposit rates in the past year, FD investors can finally look forward to better returns, after a long drought. Rising demand for loans in an improving economy, is forcing NBFCs to compete actively for deposits once again, prompting even top-rated ones to roll out deposit schemes for longer tenures of 4 to 5 years with ‘special’ rates. Sundaram Home Finance is offering 7.65% on its 4-year FD and HDFC has a special offer of 7.6% running its 45-month Sapphire Deposit scheme.
But are these rates special enough for you to lock in your money for longer tenures of 4 or 5 years?
Aarati Krishnan
January 29, 2023
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Stocks
Prime Stocks update: How this EV player is placed now
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N V Chandrachoodamani
January 26, 2023
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General
Fundamental analysis or technical analysis: which is better?
There are more theories on what works in stock investing than there are listed stocks. Each one seems to be successful at some point in time. However, there is still no single universally applicable formula. I am still in search of that magic formula. If any of you do find one, please post it in the comments section.
But if there can be said to be two warring camps on the right approach to stock investing, these are usually fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Both have loyal camps of followers who swear that their method works best.
R Balakrishnan
January 24, 2023
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Stocks
Prime Stocks: An ER and R&D services company focusing on high-growth opportunities
This leader in engineering and R&D services is differentiated from other large IT players and is focused on high growth opportunities.
N V Chandrachoodamani
January 20, 2023
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Mutual funds & ETFs
How many funds should I invest in?
How many funds to invest in is a question that both new investors and the seasoned ones are confronted with. I have seen portfolios with
Vidya Bala
January 20, 2023
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