ETMarkets Fund Manager Talk: Debt/balanced funds to outperform equity funds near term: Rahul Bhuskute, Bharti AXA

ETMarkets Fund Manager Talk: Debt/balanced funds to outperform equity funds near term: Rahul Bhuskute, Bharti AXA

With Indian equity markets expected to be under pressure over the next 3-6 months, in line with global peers, 2023 is likely to be the year of the debt market, according to Rahul Bhuskute, chief investment officer at Bharti AXA Life Insurance. “We expect to continue with the larger debt allocations seen in FY23, in … Read more

Indices drop for 3rd straight day ahead of inflation data, key IT earnings

Indices drop for 3rd straight day ahead of inflation data, key IT earnings

Ahead of the US inflation report later in the day, investors remained on edge on Dalal Street as equity indices closed in the red for the third straight day on Thursday in a volatile trading session. Index heavyweight , banking and financial stocks were a drag on the indices. The BSE Sensex index ended 147 … Read more

Volatility no worry, 150 of Nifty 500 stocks trading in bullish formation

Volatility no worry, 150 of Nifty 500 stocks trading in bullish formation

Mumbai: The Sensex and Nifty, which comprise the biggest of India’s companies, have appeared to be wobbly in the past six months but beneath the surface several stocks have shown resilience. Out of top 500 stocks on the NSE, 150, or 30% of the basket, are trading above three key trend indicators, pointing to bullishness. … Read more

How fear of future regrets shapes your decisions & how to minimise it

How fear of future regrets shapes your decisions & how to minimise it

By Nimesh Chandan Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1833. He was a chemist, engineer and an inventor and held 355 patents to his name. In 1867, while experimenting with explosives, he discovered a mixture that had high explosion capabilities and was easy to handle. He named the invention ‘dynamite’ after the … Read more

What’s unique about midcaps & smallcaps vis-à-vis largecaps

What’s unique about midcaps & smallcaps vis-à-vis largecaps

Where to invest: largecaps, midcaps or smallcaps? That’s the question investors keep wrestling with most of the time. The question has become all the more relevant in the current market, where the indices are trading near their high points. There is empirical evidence that in the runup to each market peak, valuations of smaller companies … Read more