ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT


Sponsored Post 14 November 2024
Futures and options trading have become a very lucrative way to make money in today’s digitised world. While lucrative, taking a well-thought-out approach to these trades is now more important. In fact, a recent updated study from the SEBI revealed that 1.1 crore traders lost 1.8 lakh crores...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 March 2024
To regulate the fractional ownership industry and safeguard investor interests, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has published a notification to amend the real estate investment trusts (REIT) regulations 2014. The establishing of guidelines for creating small...

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IANS 10 November 2023
The RBI has issued a notification allowing NRIs to invest, without any restrictions, in the Government’s Sovereign Green Bonds issued for 2023-24.   “It has now been decided to designate all Sovereign Green Bonds issued by the government in the fiscal year 2023-24 as ‘specified...

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IANS 08 November 2023
Indian billionaire Sunil Mittal’s Airtel Uganda Ltd. failed to sell about half of the shares on offer in its initial public offering (IPO), as investors stayed away, preferring high-yield government bonds, a media report said.   Airtel said it managed to raise 211.4bn (billion)...

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Saksham Misra 16 February 2022
The announcement of green sovereign bonds (GSBs) in the Budget speech of finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman on 1 February 2022 is a breakthrough in promoting clean and sustainable investments. India’s ambitious commitment to become a net-zero carbon emitter needs dedicated investments...

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Sponsored Post 18 December 2021
Stocks, bonds, gold and real estate are referred to as traditional investment assets. They have been investment options for decades and centuries.   However, there also exists another interesting category of investment assets referred to as alternative investments. Technically, any...

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IANS 10 August 2021
The NSE International Exchange (NSE IFSC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE), has announced that trading in select US stocks will soon be facilitated through the NSE IFSC platform.   The offering will be in the form of unsponsored depository...

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For a majority of investors, once they invest their hard-earned money, there is no guarantee that they would receive good returns. In fact, many struggle to even get their principal (investment) amount itself from the entity. Here is an inspiring story of a small group of investors, who...

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At a time of low interest rates and rising inflation, it is natural for money to seek higher returns. Every asset class has its own risks and some may have liquidity issues as well. We need to understand these risks and assess our risk appetite in money terms before venturing into new...

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In order to ensure stable and orderly evolution of the yield curve amidst comfortable liquidity conditions, the Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday decided to put in place a quantitative easing program, pledging to buy up to Rs 1 lakh crore of bonds in April-June quarter to keep borrowing...

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Mahesh Natani 30 March 2021
During the past few days, the rising yield of the 10-year US treasury has attracted the attention of the bond and stock investors all over the world. The yield in a very short period of 75 days had crossed the level of 1.75% on 18th March, creating panic among investors in bonds and growth...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 March 2021
The Bombay High Court on Thursday admitted an interim application filed by Yes Bank AT1 Bond Holders Association for their claims worth Rs160 crore. While allowing the plea with specific prayer, the bench of justice AA Sayed and justice SP Tavade asked Securities and Exchange Board of India...

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Rajendra Gill 23 March 2021
Last week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shook the bond market, thanks to some extraordinary comments in RBI Bulletin of March 2021 in the article “State of the Economy”. The article, which deploys some colourful prose that is unusual coming from a central bank, says, “Five developments...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 March 2021
Amidst various industry reforms in the past seven years, multiple new trends emerged in the Indian residential real estate market. Strikingly, housing rentals in key luxury markets saw better year-on-year (y-o-y) growth between 2014 and 2020 than average capital prices in the same localities....

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In a major reform initiative, the government has permitted opening up of derivative market in the power sector like any other commodity, allowing power generators and consumers to enter futures contracts and use it as a new hedging tool to mitigate price volatility and other associated...

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The government on Saturday further relaxed regulatory provisions to operate small savings schemes, allowing Public Provident Fund (PPF) and Sukanya Samriddhi Account (SSA) holders to complete their deposits for FY20 till 30 June 2020.   The three-month extension would be subject to...

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IANS 04 February 2020
The Ministry of Finance will soon allot special series rupee government bonds that are open for global and domestic investors. "Assuming that they meet size and liquidity criteria, they will be eligible for index inclusion and thereby provide access to this large and stable source of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 January 2020
National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) claims that it has emerged as the world's largest derivatives exchange in 2019 by number of contracts traded surpassing the CME Group, based on the statistics published by Futures Industry Association (FIA), a derivatives trade body.   The...

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The proposal of the high level advisory group (HLAG), set up by the minister of commerce, for an amnesty scheme to bring black money back into India via the issuance of elephant bonds has drawn very few responses. This is not the first time such an effort has been made; but this proposal needs...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 June 2019
The union ministry of finance has invited expression of interest (EoI) for appointing an advisor to help it launch exchange traded fund (ETF) for financial sector. The EFT would comprise shares of listed state-run entities like banks (PSBs), insurance companies and financial...

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