Ashishkumar Chauhan Managing Director and CEO, National Stock Exchange 

Every fund manager and investor wishes to earn more than the BSE Sensex return, which in technical parlance is referred to as generating alpha.

Small-caps and micro-caps offer high growth potential, but investors need to look at the company’s fundamentals, promoters’ credentials, sectoral outlook, company’s valuation and its key ratios before investing, says Pradeep Gupta, Co-founder & Vice Chairman, Anand Rathi Group

Global markets have been through a rather testing period in 2022.

A very simple and humble tool called relative strength indicators goes a long way in making your portfolio highly resilient in turbulent times and strongly outperforms in times of rising markets, says Milan Vaishnav, Technical Analyst and Founder of Gemstone Equity Research, Equity Research Asia and Chart Wizard FZE

Option chain is a very popular tool for data analysis among derivatives traders. It is available on the NSE website and there are other software too offering this feature, writes Prashant Shah, Co-founder & CEO Definedge Securities 

Ridham Desai, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley India presents his opinion about what the new India holds in terms of changes in the country’s economy

The pricing of real estate is more connected to the locations and the facilities they have to offer along with commute times for the working population rather than the pollution level, notes Prashant Thakur, Director and Head (Research), ANAROCK Group

The year 2020-2021 has not been kind to mankind. We all are struggling with the second wave of the corona virus pandemic and there is too much uncertainty. Yet, life moves on and we have to put our money to work for us. Every investor develops his or her own style of investing and this is what makes investing interesting and a continuous learning experience.

With skyscrapers now becoming common enough in metros, do the developers of such high-rises follow all the mandatory norms to make the structures safe in the face of natural or manmade disasters? Anuj Puri, Chairman, ANAROCK Property Consultants, dwells on this issue 

If an investor understands a particular sector well, can devote time for in-depth study, has a considerable long-term investment horizon and wants to earn higher returns, sectoral investing can be a right choice, recommend Dr. Ruzbeh Bodhanwala and Dr. Shernaz Bodhanwala, faculty at FLAME University, Pune

Many a times it is said that the returns from penny stocks are much higher as compared to large-cap stocks. In this study, we will explore if average returns from low-price stock can generate higher returns for the shareholders.

By adopting innovative technologies like automation in construction, innovative designs, sustainability, use of prefabricated material and online marketing, developers can value-engineer their product, writes Anuj Puri, Chairman, ANAROCK Property Consultants

Staying invested for a long time is the key to building up wealth rather than indulging in knee-jerk actions and reactions, suggest Dr. Ruzbeh J. Bodhanwala and Dr. Shernaz Bodhanwala, faculty members of FLAME School of Business, FLAME University, Pune 

The Union Budget FY 2020-21 seems to be significantly moderated, given the prevailing extraordinary economic circumstances in India. Consequently, the revenue receipts are expected to grow at just over 9 per cent as compared to 19.2 per cent recorded the previous year.

Tarun Kumar Kalra Global Head of Sales, CredoLab

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Founder,Tax Connect Advisory Services

Dr Ruzbeh Bodhanwala and Dr Shernaz Bodhanwala are faculty at FLAME University, Pune.

It is heartening to see an increasing number of investors following a disciplined investment approach and planning investments to achieve their financial goals over determined time horizons.

Market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India defined large cap, mid cap and small cap companies for equity mutual fund schemes on October 6, 2017 in order to have uniformity in the investment objective of mutual funds and eventually help in better comparision of schemes.

Index investing is the most simple way of taking exposure to equity markets, often referred to as passive investing. When you invest in stocks forming an Index assigning funds in stocks on the basis of the weightage they carry in the underlying index, then your investment will mimic the returns of the index.

Last couple of years have been quite challenging for investors in equity and equity-oriented hybrid funds. Even those who have been investing through SIPs are seeing negative returns in their portfolios. While handling the current market like situation can be quite tricky for investors, they must avoid making abrupt decisions to protect their financial future. Needless to say, investors need hand-holding during these turbulent times to keep their investments on track to achieve their defined investment goals. 

Increase in ROE can be caused by many of the factors like higher profit margins, higher capital turnover, higher financial cost ratio, higher financial structure ratio and, lastly, due to change in tax structures.Since shareholders are interested in return on the money they have invested, they should prefer to invest in stocks with higher ROE.

"Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years."

Warren Buffett

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Making money on the stock markets is not easy!This is the very reason why equity investment provides windfall gains if you are among the few who do it right. 

All of us aspire to create wealth over time so that there are sufficient financial resources at every stage of our lives.

A bucket list usually has two types of goals, that is, those that are self-indulgent like holidaying at an exotic location or buying a latest gadget, and those that are more purposeful, like further studies. Since it may not be possible for you to focus on all of them, the key is to prioritize them and make the list achievable.

It is also a well-known fact that investing is a process that requires patience, perseverance and knowledge as well as the discipline to achieve investment success on a consistent basis. All these traits can be learnt over time, and hence,starting to invest early helps. Unfortunately, not many take investment seriously at a young age and, hence, they pay a heavy price by compromising their important long-term goals like having a dream retired life. 

Valuation as measured by PE ratio is a strong indicator of how cheap or expensive a stock is as compared to its peers or as compared to its historical multiples. When companies trade at a high PE ratio

Here’s How To Generate Regular Income Efficiently 
One of the biggest challenges for the retirees as well as self-employed people in the present times is to generate regular income out of their investments. Although there are a number of options available 

Allowing greed and fear to cloud your investment decisions can be harmful for your financial health. While greed can take you beyond your defined level of risk, fear stops you from looking beyond traditional investment options.

CNX Nifty comprises of 50 actively traded stocks. The index governance team for CNX Nifty has made over 186 changes since inception, which means at different point of time, close to 93 companies have been included and 93 excluded from the index.

Investing your money is a process that requires planning and realigning your goals and investments in a manner that you have sufficient resources at different stages of your life. Here is what can help you achieve this efficiently. 

Mutual funds are a simple yet the most dynamic investment vehicle. However, to get the best from them, it is important to make the right selection in terms of schemes, options as well as the strategy. However, many investors face dilemmas while doing so and hence often find it difficult to make the right choices. Here are a few of the dilemmas faced by investors and how these can be tackled.

In an ever-changing financial landscape, investing money judiciously can be quite challenging. Besides, for those investors who have a habit of allowing emotions to influence their investment decisions at different stages of their investment journey, the process becomes even more complex for them. 

In the infrastructure sector, road transport plays an important role. The Bharatmala Pariyojana, is targeted at building 34800 km in Phase-1 at a cost of Rs 5.35 tn,,of which 6,320 km length of road worth ~Rs 1.44 tn has been awarded.

Investing money to achieve varied investment goals is a process that requires investors to follow a disciplined approach through their defined time horizon. However, considering that different asset classes behave differently over different time periods, asset allocation plays a significant role in deciding the kind of returns one can expect and the kind of risk one could get exposed to.