Issue of 10th May-16th May 2019
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A Buy & Hold Portfolio of High-quality Stocks
I have often wondered ‘what if I made a portfolio of high-quality stocks and held them for a long time without any changes’—a kind of ‘buy-it-and-forget–it’ portfolio? I recently suggested to the Moneylife team a list of 33 stocks, actually 30 plus three (which have very high unit prices and may not fit into anything but large-value... Read More
CROSSHAIRS
An industrialist, who has keen interest in the resolution of bad loans, told me that banks are no longer keen on the shining new bankruptcy law—Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC)—to recover bad loans. He says that banks prefer to find other solutions because of long delays and endless...
STOCKS
Starting 2019, India Inc will see implementation of various recommendations put forward by the Kotak Committee in 2017. The Kotak Committee, constituted on 2 June 2017, was the third committee to examine issues of corporate governance commissioned under the Securities and Exchange Board of...
Ankush Agrawal
Guidelines    1. The Grader captures the first two of the three intrinsic factors that drive a stock: valuation, returns and growth. Since growth is volatile and difficult to capture through a metric, we have used only the first two factors. In place of growth, we have provided...
Moneylife Digital Team
MUTUAL FUNDS
The best three and the worst three schemes over the past three years ranked by their quarterly rolling returns. Premium members get access to a more refined list of top schemes by logging into Moneylife Advisory  
Moneylife Digital Team
The Indian mutual fund (MF) industry manages over Rs10.40 lakh crore of equity assets across several scheme categories, including active and passively managed schemes. There has been a rapid growth in passive investments in the past couple of years. Are investors correct in shifting to...
Clinton Fernandes
FIXED INCOME
ECL Finance (ECLF), a non-banking finance company (NBFC), plans to raise Rs300 crore through the issue of secured non-convertible debentures (NCDs). The proposed NCD issue will be the first tranche of a series of borrowings planned by ECL Finance.   Subscriptions to Tranche-I NCDs...
Moneylife Digital Team
LEGAL
To say that we are living in uncertain times is to state the obvious. We face all kinds of risks; some of them could lead to accidents and even death. While nobody can foresee such eventualities, it leaves a trail of grief. However, life has to go on. This means that one needs funds for...
MOBILE APPS
HEALTH
We have already heard that consuming nuts is one of the key factors in improving brain health. Now, a new study has found that consuming walnuts is beneficial for people who are at risk of heart disease and helps them lower their blood pressure.    The study was conducted by a...
Akshay Naik
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