It’s not often that India’s stock markets disappoint investors for a long stretch. The benchmark indices have yielded negative returns not just over the past one year, but also over a two-year time frame. In 2026, the Sensex has ended 37% of its trading days with two-year returns in red, the worst showing since 2012, shows an ET analysis. It’s now 697 days, and counting, since the indices struck anew all-time high. Tanay Sukumar looks at the data:
Investors looking to participate in India’s commercial real estate market without buying property directly will soon have a new option. Edelweiss Mutual Fund has launched the Edelweiss Nifty REITs & Realty Index Fund, which it describes as India’s first REIT-oriented mutual fund. The new fund offer (NFO) will open for subscription from August 5 to…
Mid-cap mutual funds are often considered a middle ground between large-cap and small-cap funds. These schemes invest mainly in medium-sized companies that are considered to have greater growth potential than established large-cap companies, while carrying relatively lower risk than small-cap stocks. Under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) categorisation norms, mid-cap funds are…
Let me show you why the larger one wins, because the arithmetic is more lopsided than people expect. Imagine two savers, both starting from nothing, and investing every month for ten years. The first is sensible but unremarkable and puts away ₹20,000 a month, earning a quite ordinary 8% a year. The second is the…
Mumbai: Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Monday said the regulator will examine and address issues in the new Closing Auction Session (CAS), while ruling out scrapping the mechanism simply because some market participants want to trade options differently. “We are talking to participants about the concerns. We are analysing…
The EPS-95 National Agitation Committee has long demanded an increase in the minimum monthly pension from ₹1,000 to ₹7,500, along with Dearness Allowance (DA). The issue was raised in the Lok Sabha, where the Minister of State for Labour and Employment was asked whether the government plans to increase the pension amount and provide greater…
Rajju Choudhary, vice-president, partnerships & alliances at Multipl, said, “Say a family spends ₹30,000-40,000 a month on apps like Zomato, Swiggy, Uber and Myntra. On Multipl, that amount is invested into curated mutual funds on the first day of the month so that it starts earning returns immediately instead of sitting idle. Money is supposed…
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