Issue of 15th Jun-21st Jun 2018
LEAD ARTICLE
financial magazines online
Time To Buy Debt Schemes?
Investors in debt schemes of mutual funds (MFs) go through a bad time when interest rates rise because, with these, bond prices decline. Debt schemes which invest in bonds suffer. This is what has been happening for the past one year as interest rates rose and debt funds delivered poor returns. In some cases, debt schemes even made losses.... Read More
Moneylife Digital Team
CROSSHAIRS
Even as investment experts are busy totting up the number of auditors that have resigned this financial year (37 at latest count, according to Prime Database), the big audit firm that triggered such an exodus, is facing the whiplash of regulatory action around the world. On 13th June this...
STOCKS
Everybody knows that the primary driver of stock prices is profit. A slight slowdown in profit growth can beat down a stock that is expected to grow at a high rate, if the decline isn’t seen as temporary and explainable. This is the reason for the recent decline in high-profile stocks, such...
The stock of Wim Plast, well-known for its plastic moulded furniture and planned expansion into air-coolers, rose around 70 times from Rs24 in March 2009 to Rs1,700 in June 2017. Since then, it has corrected by almost 50% and is now trading at around Rs930. Is this a good time to buy the...
Harsh Gadodia
Avanti Feeds has been in news lately and it is not because the company has posted huge growth in its profits or revenues, or because its stock price has jumped. This time, the company is buzzing because of a sharp fall in its stock price. From a high of Rs3,000 in mid-November 2017, the stock...
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SMART MONEY
Of late, several auditors have refused to sign accounts or companies have been unable to declare results on time. For the first time in India, the audit profession is facing the heat of the regulators. This has long been overdue. Which brings us to the debate about the extent to which we can...
INSURANCE
HDFC Life Cardiac Care is a fixed-benefit health plan offering protection for 18 heart conditions. These 18 conditions are classified into three categories according to their severity—high, moderate and mild. A lump-sum benefit is given to the insured as per the category. It provides...
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TECHNOLOGY
Finding and sorting news can be difficult and clunky. Palabre is a wonderful app that focuses on the topics you want to read about. When you first open the app, you will be presented with popular categories and some sources from where you can get them. You can use their categories or create...
Listed as one of the Top-30 Best Android apps of 2017 by TheNextWeb, this podcast app gives you all—a catalogue of over 300,000 podcasts on different topics, like daily news, sports, movies, entertainment and lifestyle, hosted by renowned publishers.   You can sync your podcast...
HEALTH
All of us know that eating healthy can have a major impact on the way one feels. Load up on fast-food and processed junk and you will, probably, start to feel sluggish, tired and weighed down. Cram in tonnes of nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables into your diet and you are likely to find...
Vithal Nadkarni
I saw this young lady of 20 all worked up and shaking with fear; the family members in trail were equally anxious. The story goes that she went for some vague joint pains to a specialist. She had normal joints, though. All the tests that he ordered -- a long battery of them -- were all...
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