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Having addressed business, stock markets and personal finance for the last 18 years, Clifford Alvares has ridden the roller-coaster markets - up close and personal -successfully, traversing the downs and relishing the rises. The greater part of his journalistic ventures has gone into shaping articles about how to shape portfolios
Start with a two- or three-year perspective, then continue to steadily increase the number and amount of your investments
Read MoreAll the good news is done and dusted. Stock markets have discounted a fiscally prudent budget and expectations of a better monsoon
Read MoreInvestors should continue to keep an eye out for a pick-up in earnings, and at the same time perhaps look to build up positions in companies that are showing good cash earnings.
Read MoreForeign investors are turning marginal sellers having offloaded stocks worth Rs 1,040.14 crore in April. If the drizzle turns into a shower, the broader markets could take a further beating
Read MoreWhile buyers will be assured of quality products after the passage of the Real Estate Bill, prices of properties could go up
Read MoreForeign investors have poured in $3 billion, and counting, into Indian equities in March. Domestic investors are, however, not as bullish the foreign investors
Read MoreFixed-income investors have to now actively scout for the best options as yields are set to change frequently
Read MoreLarge-caps seem set to shine a little more as the foreign investors first seek out the more liquid, sturdy names
Read MoreA feel-good factor coming from overseas the past two weeks has seen the outlook shift from gloom to boom
Read MoreThe hullabaloo on EPF taxation shows just how much people are banking on a single avenue to fund retirement. But there’s more than one option.
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