Star Health, Star Health IPO, Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd
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N V Chandrachoodamani

IPO Review: Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd

Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd (Star Health), India’s leading standalone health insurer, is making an IPO worth Rs. 7,249 crore comprising a fresh issue of shares valued at Rs.2,000 crore and an offer for sale of Rs.5,249 crore. The issue will open on November 30 and close on December 2 at a price band of Rs. 870-900 per share.  At the upper end of the price band, Star Health will be valued at Rs. 51,800 crore (~$7 billion).

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Gateway Distriparks (GDL)
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N V Chandrachoodamani

Gateway Distriparks (GDL): A long haul on India’s trade and infrastructure

Gateway Distriparks (GDL) is a prominent company in the logistics sector. What started off as a single container freight station (CFS) facility to serve containerized imports of paper rolls to India in 1994, post the economic reforms of 1991, transformed into a key logistics player in India’s export-import (EXIM) trade.

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Motilal Oswal MSCI EAFE Top 100 Select Index Fund
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Bhavana Acharya

NFO Review: Motilal Oswal MSCI EAFE Top 100 Select Index Fund

This is the Motilal Oswal MSCI EAFE Top 100 Select Index Fund (yes, one long fund name!), a passive fund that will track the MSCI EAFE Top 100 Select Index. This index represents the largest stocks in developed markets in Europe, Australasia and the Far East. That means the US, the key global market, is not part of this index. 

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IPO action
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Aarati Krishnan

Fund review: For a bite of the IPO action

India’s IPO market has been throwing up many money-making opportunities lately. But for retail investors trying to get in on a piece of the action, bidding in IPOs is a frustrating exercise. But if you’re set on investing in IPOs, here’s a workaround through the mutual fund route.

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How to invest in debt funds
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Vidya Bala

Prime Strategy: How to invest in debt funds now?

Prime Strategy: How to invest in debt funds now?
If you had invested in an ultra-short debt fund like Axis Treasury Advantage 3 years ago, your returns would be 7.3% CAGR now. Not bad at all by today’s standards, right? If you invested in the same fund 2 years ago in November 2019, your returns would be 6% – still not terrible. But what if you had invested in this fund just a year ago?

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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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One 97 Communications (Paytm)
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Bhavana Acharya

IPO Review : One 97 Communications (Paytm)

Rs 18,300 crore. This monumental sum is what One 97 Communications Limited, which owns the Paytm platform, aims to mop up in the largest-ever IPO in our markets. To put it in perspective, it is almost twice the size of the largest IPO this year (Zomato at Rs 9375 cr), and as much as the 3 IPOs that we covered recently (Nykaa, FinoBank and PolicyBazaar) combined.

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will the correction continue
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B Krishnakumar

Technical outlook: Nifty 50 – will the correction continue?

In our previous post on the outlook for the Nifty 50 index, we had shared the view that the Nifty 50 index could get into a short-term correction. In that post, in addition to the Nifty 50 trends, we had also made a mention of three sector indices – the Nifty IT index, Nifty FMCG & Nifty Bank – that could be instrumental in triggering short-term corrections. 

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PB Fintech, Policybazaar, paisabazaar
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Vidya Bala

IPO review: PB Fintech (Policybazaar) – Should you invest?

At a time when the revenue models for many fintech startups are ambiguous, PB Fintech –  the company that houses Policybazaar and Paisabazaar – stands out. It has a clear revenue model driven by scalability that will likely pave the path to profits!

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fino payments bank
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N V Chandrachoodamani

IPO Review: Fino Payments Bank Ltd

Fino Payments Bank arrives in the market today with an IPO – a public issue of Rs.1,200 crore comprising fresh issue of shares worth Rs.300 crore and offer for sale of shares worth Rs.900 crore by promoter, Fino Paytech, at a price band of Rs. 560-577 per share.  The issue opens on October 29 and closes on November 2. The proceeds from the fresh issue will go towards augmenting the capital base of the bank. 

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