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SDL bond opportunity
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Aarati Krishnan

How to play the SDL bond opportunity?

How to play the SDL bond opportunity?
Itโ€™s not an easy life for fixed income investors looking to earn decent yields today. With RBI regularly mopping up government securities through its G-SAP programme and also reining in yields on new issues, the 10-year government security has been caught in a range of 5.8 to 6.3 per cent for the last one year, despite elevated inflation.ย 

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HDFC Developed World Indexes FOF
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Bhavana Acharya

NFO Review: HDFC Developed World Indexes FOF

This is the HDFC Developed World Indexes FOF, a fund that aims to track the MSCI World index. Whatโ€™s this index, how does the fund plan to track it, and does it fit a portfolio? Letโ€™s dig in.

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A lesser-known niche bio-tech player
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N V Chandrachoodamani

Prime Stock Recommendation : A lesser-known niche bio-tech player

Specialty chemicals and API makers are the flavour of the season. Here is a lesser-known niche bio-tech player in the enzymes and probiotics space that is worth looking at.ย The world is becoming increasingly aware of the harmful effects of chemicals on health. Natural alternatives to boost the immune system are gaining traction…

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balanced advantage
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Vidya Bala

Prime Recommendation: The best fund in the balanced advantage category

The balanced advantage category (called the balanced advantage/dynamic asset allocation category or BA/DAA) has received a lot of attention, after a whopping collection of Rs 12,000 crore by SBI Balanced Advantage during its recent NFO. This category is mostly seen as one that delivers equity returns with less risk or one that can be used as an income generation option โ€“ neither of which are quite right. In this report we get into detail about one of our already recommended funds in this space, while also explaining when and how to use a fund in this category.

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Nifty Sectoral Indices
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B Krishnakumar

Nifty Sectoral Indices: Outperformers & the promising ones

Even as the Sensex and the Nifty 50 scale new highs, how have the individual nifty sectoral indices performed? In this post, weโ€™ll take a look at the sectoral indices in order to identify the outperforming and underperforming sectors. We shall also try to unearth the ones that are setting up well and could end up being the next outperforming sector.ย 

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InvIT option for income seekers
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PrimeInvestor Research Team

Prime Recommendation: A high-yielding InvIT option for income seekers

Indian investors looking for a high yielding InvIT option for income seekers with relative safety have very limited choices today. Infrastructure Investment Trusts or InvITs, which are a halfway house between stocks and bonds, offer such investors a shot at earning higher yields without high risk to their capital.ย 

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rakesh jhunjhunwala, rakesh jhunjhunwala portfolio
Investment basics
N V Chandrachoodamani

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Portfolio – 4 insightful takeaways

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala portfolio (listed) is easily accessible, since companies need to disclose large shareholders each quarter. But it is not that easy to build your investments based on it. The reasons why it is hard to replicate the portfolio and its success are many.

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balanced advantage funds for SWPs
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Bhavana Acharya

Should you use balanced advantage funds for SWPs?

Balanced Advantage Funds for SWPs – Last week saw the NFO of SBI Balanced Advantage Fund close – and collect a whopping Rs 14,500 crore. That puts it in third place, in terms of size, in the balanced advantage/dynamic asset allocation category. A lot of the attraction here for investors, seeded by the distributors and the fund itself, centered around the schemeโ€™s ability to offer monthly income.

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steel stocks, steel sector results, sector review, steel sector results review
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N V Chandrachoodamani

Steel Stocks – Hot and Shining!

For the first quarter of FY-22 listed steel stocks have generated profits that are already three-fourth that of the full year ending FY-21. The sector has thus stood out for its June quarter earnings, the 2nd wave of Covid lockdown and drop in consumption notwithstanding. Higher prices and export opportunities buttressed earnings despite a drop in domestic sales.ย 

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Cred Mint, CRED, review of CRED Mint
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Srikanth Meenakshi

CRED launches CRED Mint

Cred Mint, as noted earlier, is a peer-to-peer lending platform. What this means is, simply put, people lending to each other by using an intermediary service.ย By using Cred Mint, a customer can either borrow or lend to other Cred customers at โ€œattractiveโ€ rates. For lenders, Cred is promising interest rates โ€œup to 9%โ€, which is significantly higher than bank FD rates today.

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Arogya Rakshak, LIC, LIC Arogya Rakshak
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Pavithra Jaivant

LIC Arogya Rakshak โ€“ should you go for it?

The LIC Arogya Rakshak falls somewhere in between a hospital daily-cash policy and a critical illness cover. It is an individual health insurance plan from a life insurer that provides a definite benefit unlike indemnity health covers that only reimburse hospital expenses. It can be taken either on an individual or a family floater basis, with one member being the Principal Insured (PI).

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