The municipal bond market in India has been marked by very modest borrowing levels, which have stagnated over the past few years. One of the possible reasons for this could be the availability of ‛soft...
India’s urban population has been constantly growing since independence and the current urbanization rate is close to 31.2 percent. However, in absolute terms, India is second only to China in total urban population. The existing...
They say the Stock Market is a place to transfer wealth from the impatient to the patient! Since the impatient are always larger in number compared to the patient, it literally “pays to be patient”...
Markets are crashing! Can I stop my SIPs? Of late I am getting many calls from investors. The question is similar in most cases. With equity markets falling daily, can I stop the SIPs? Can...
There are three, and arguably interrelated, known unknowns that are seemingly on everyone’s mind. First is the decline in global equity markets. Is this simply a long overdue correction? Wasn’t August 24 some sort of...
Indians give birth to around 27 million babies each year, yet the penetration rate of disposable diapers remains at less than two percent! Contrary to popular belief that traditional factors prevent usage of disposable diapers...
India is crucial for Uber. It’s their biggest market outside the US, providing its fastest growth in the world. But is the success of one taxi-hailing app just the first sign of something bigger for...
Indian bond markets have being seeing volatility in yields since May 2013 when the news of imminent tapering of Quantitative Easing by the U.S Federal Reserve came to the fore. The yield volatility was largely...
The markets are an incredible aggregator of information. However, because of a tsunami of information, sometimes investors have difficulty in distinguishing the signal from noise. Let us try to help. Here we look at three...
This has been one heck of a phenomenon to observe as it climbs relentlessly from one level to the next, and each level seems to be so out of whack and so crazy that no...
Attribute to Iraq conflict or anything, On Friday Equity markets corrected the most in past four and half months. Midcaps were even more butchered and it seems honeymoon period or Hope rally as popularly called...
Understanding Qualified Foreign Investors (QFI) and their impact on Indian capital markets Former Finance Minister turned President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee opened up doors of Indian Capital Markets on Jan 1, 2012 by announcing guidelines for investments...