Mumbai: The bulls roared back into Dalal Street on Tuesday, as both domestic and foreign investors pumped for Indian equities, sending the markets up by the highest margin in more than a month. Experts said the sharp correction seen over the past six months encouraged investors to buy as stocks fell to attractive levels. Broader…
As Justyn Walsh writes in Investing with Keynes: âKeynesâ most famous example of the âfallacy of compositionâ was the so-called Paradox of Thriftâwhich notes that saving is good for the individual, but if all individuals increase their savings then aggregate demand will fall, eventually leading to lower savings for the population as a whole.” Also…
In the past six months, RIL is down 15%, and Jio Financials is down by 28%. âIn the coming weeks and months, we will begin pruning our defensive exposure toward more cyclical and growth-oriented segments,” Quant Mutual Fund said in a recent communication to investors. For context, the benchmark Nifty 50 is down 10% from…
A 500-stock index is typically expected to offer wide diversification to investors, but the Nifty 500 index has a large-cap bias. However, a recently launched rule-based fundâthe Nippon India Nifty 500 Equal Weight Index Fundâaims to give broader diversification across large-, mid-, and small-cap stocks. How it works Instead of market-cap weights, the fund will…
Indian stock market investors should capitalize on the growth potential of midcap and smallcap segments while having defensives like largecap pharma, IT and consumer in their portfolio, said Vikram Kasat, Head – Advisory, PL Capital – Prabhudas Lilladher. In an interaction with Livemint, Kasat said there is more valuation comfort in largecap stocks and investors…
These heavyweightsâHDFC Bank, Reliance Industries, ITC, TCS, Infosys, and Kotak Mahindra Bank, collectively known as Hritik on Dalal Street, account for 40% of the Nifty 50 index. Â View Full Image… Data compiled by DSP MF shows that the market capitalization share of the top ten Nifty companies is hovering around 20%, an all-time low…
Mid-cap and small-cap stocks have long been attractive for their high return potential. The Nifty Midcap index has outperformed the benchmark Nifty index for the fourth straight month in July (till date), rising 4.7 percent as against a 3.4 percent gain in Nifty. In 2024 as well, the mid-cap index has jumped over 30 percent…
