MF flows in October showed a clear return of the debt funds but Mutual Funds flows into equity and ELSS funds were 50% lower than last year. Overall inflows into active equity funds and ELSS in October 2019 stood at Rs.6,489 crore, down 50% on a YOY basis. Read more [...]

Is the discount broking space in India getting overcrowded? Discount broking has grown rapidly in the last few years and has been helped along the way by better technology, improved bandwidth and the rise of mobile app usage. Most investors are now seeing Read more [...]

Government may not participate in DHFL bailout; and rightly so In the last few months, there have been strident calls for the government to intervene and sort out the DHFL mess. The problem is more than a year old. At one time, DHFL was considered the Read more [...]

Moody’s downgrade ignores a lot of recent reformist measures Rating agency, Moody’s, downgraded the outlook for the Indian economy from stable to negative. It needs to be recollected that back in 2017, Moody’s was the only global rating agency Read more [...]

News Announcement Impact Analysis Trade war between the US and China subsided but issues still remain The trade war appeared to subside after China hinted that the US and China may be willing to roll back previous tariffs However, Read more [...]

SEBI has again tightened the compliance screws on Indian MFs. Mutual Funds will now have to mandatorily report change in investment terms to rating agencies. SEBI has mandated that all mutual funds must immediately report any change in terms like the Read more [...]

There could be a slight delay in the signing of the US-China trade deal, which is now likely to be signed in London in the month of December. The proposed trade deal, which was supposed to happen as early as mid-November, is now likely to be delayed to Read more [...]

The finance minister has underlined the efforts taken by the government in conjunction with banks and RBI to revive real estate companies. Nirmala Sitharaman underlined the Finance Ministry was working closely with the RBI and the banks to revive the Read more [...]