When it comes to investing, risk is loud. Opportunity is quiet.

Shares of Vedanta Oil & Gas fell as much as 3.4% to their day’s low of Rs 33.66 on the BSE on Wednesday after the company disclosed two separate legal matters involving the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) and the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), Government of India. In the first matter, the…

When you leave a job, your employer is expected to record your date of exit on the EPFO portal. If the date is missing or incorrectly marked, it can disrupt the transfer of your old PF account to a new employer and may also raise questions during background verification by the new company. The good…

Every investor has a portfolio. But very few have a portfolio strategy. In the investment world, a portfolio number is usually just an identifier used to track holdings and transactions. But what if it meant something more? What if it represented not just what an investor owns, but how the portfolio is designed to behave…

Active equity mutual funds have outperformed their respective benchmark indices in both long-term annualised returns and downside protection, according to an analysis by Capitalmind Financial Services Private Limited. The analysis compares the equal-weighted average performance of direct active funds in the large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap and flexi-cap categories that have been live since 2013 with their…

The banker to every Indian is dipping into its vast reservoir of wealth – of relationships and trust – to manage big money for the well-heeled, hitherto served largely by a swish set of private banks. State Bank of India (SBI) has identified more than 1.7 million existing customers, with an investment potential of Rs…

That is why value tends to favour companies whose worth is already visible in their financials, while contra opportunities, as Basu puts it, lie “not only in cheap stocks, but also in high quality, growth businesses, sectors, or themes that are temporarily out of favour.”