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Inflation and Investments
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26 Dec 2008 18:23 IST by WealthMonk Advisor
If you were tracking debt markets today, you would realize the euphoria is somewhat like the sensex touching 16,000 for the first time last year. At the core of the euphoria is falling inflation. A rising inflation had for better part of this year ...
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Year of The Bond
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26 Dec 2008 16:10 IST by WealthMonk Advisor
2009 shall be the year of The Bond (market). Bonds have already started off the upward journey on the face of lackadaisical interest in equities and a speculative opportunity arising out of yields going up significantly in the past few months. ...
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A Balanced ELSS Fund?
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29 Dec 2008 14:33 IST by WealthMonk Advisor
Why don’t we have a balanced ELSS ? All available ELSS schemes (equity linked saving schemes) in the country today are 100% equity schemes. A balanced fund would seek to invests a minimum of 65% in equities and the remaining in debt or cash. A ...
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Bond Rally and Bank Credit
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13 Jan 2009 15:00 IST by WealthMonk Advisor
Government securities saw a huge run up over the last few weeks. In a little over 4 months the yields on the benchmark 10 year government bond has fallen (yields and prices are inversely related) from 9.5% levels to less than 5%. In the process, ...
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