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The regulatory minefield on digital lending
General
R Balakrishnan

The regulatory minefield on digital lending

…RBI, facing fire from all sides, should set up a working group that has put up a white paper on the issues that face โ€˜digital lendingโ€™. I recall reading some months ago that there were 1100+ lending apps and that nearly 600 were illegal.

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Retail Direct, RBI Retail Direct
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Aarati Krishnan

5 steps to buy g-secs on the RBI Retail Direct platform

RBIโ€™s new Retail Direct platform which was flagged off in November, offers retail investors a chance to participate in the primary market auctions of Central government and State government securities that the RBI conducts.ย 

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money wise, deepak shenoy
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Srikanth Meenakshi

Book review – โ€˜Money Wiseโ€™ by Deepak Shenoy

Pre-ordering a book before publication is like buying units of an NFO. You are committing money before you know what you are going to get. But in the case of ‘Money Wise’ by Deepak Shenoy, I knew it was a sure bet. Having known the author and reading his works for several years, I had a pretty good idea about what I would receive, and hence as soon as the book was announced, I jumped on it with an instant order.

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de-risk your equity funds, de-risk
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Aarati Krishnan

5 ways to de-risk your equity funds, without cashing out

one good way to de-risk your equity fund portfolio from a market fall would be to switch from funds following a momentum style of investing to those following a value or contrarian style or funds with a value-oriented approach. Value funds typically buy fundamentally sound companies that trade at a discount to their intrinsic value in the markets.

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credit rating
General
R Balakrishnan

What they donโ€™t tell you about credit ratings

I was privileged to be part of the beginnings of the credit rating industry in India. From being an unwanted pest in its early days, the industry is now the favourite whipping boy for regulators and investors, who have blindfolded themselves with wrong notions about the role of credit rating agencies.

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tata group
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N V Chandrachoodamani

Prime update: The Tata groupโ€™s โ€˜clean energyโ€™ club

The Tata group recently announced the investment of global PE major TPG (formerly Texas Pacific Group) in the electric vehicle (EV) arm of Tata Motors at a valuation of $9.1 billion (about Rs.68,000 crore) recently. Not surprisingly, the stock of Tata Motors soared 25% on the day of the deal announcement.

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Research Reports
PrimeInvestor Research Team

Quarterly Review โ€“ Changes to Prime Portfolios

We’ll explain the Prime Portfolios where we have made changes in this review cycle and the reasons for the same. We’ll also tell you what to do with existing investments in the portfolios.

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four books
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Srikanth Meenakshi

Four books

None of these four books are particularly ‘PrimeInvestor’ topic – relating to personal finance or FinTech. Nevertheless, I thought I’ll share my thoughts on these books – 4 of them – in a brief note. Some of these books are quite popular, and all of them are worth your time, if the topic interests you.

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