In recent times, if you are facing losses in mutual fund investments then you are not the only one. Off-late, many investors gave up their FDs and started investing in mutual funds, but now as mutual funds are incurring losses, many investors are thinking to move back to FDs. So let us find out whether doing so would be a good or bad idea.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 12.27 p.m. on October 04, 2018.

The markets on October 04, 2018 opened flat. BSE Sensex is trading at 35,182.57, down by 793.06 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,615.40, down by 242.85 points. 

Following the downtrend of Wednesday, the BSE Sensitive Index dipped another 600 plus points on Thursday, fuelled by further fall in the Indian rupee. At 10:39 hours, the BSE Sensex was 35,351.76, down by 623.87 points or 1.73 per cent, while the Nifty50 was at 10,662.65, down by 195.60 points.

L&T's subsidiary, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE) consortium, has been awarded the biggest single subsea contract by ONGC. The awarded is for ONGC's most sought development block, 98/2 in the Krishna Godavari basin.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.24 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 11,76,210.85 crore.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.24 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 11,76,210.85 crore.

Going ahead,  the area of 10,775-10,800 remains a crucial support level for the index as it is a confluence of 200-DMA, which is currently placed at 10,777, and 78.6 per cent retracement level of July-August, which is placed at 10,815. Failing to hold this crucial support could possibly take the index towards the lower levels of 10,690-10,670 in the short term. Stocks in news: Aditya Birla Capital, Bharti Airtel, Tata Power, Amara Raja Batteries, TVS Motor, SRF, Larsen and Toubro and Infosys.

Selling pressure is likely to continue in the Indian markets following negative cues from Asian peers and the ghost of strong dollar and hardening oil price will continue to spook the markets. The SGX Nifty is trading with a loss of 129 points at 10,754 levels, indicating terrible start to the day.

The stocks most likely to witness significant movement on the bourses on October 4, 2018 are  HCL Technologies Ltd., Infosys, Amara Raja Batteries Ltd., Tata Power, Bank of Maharashtra, TVS Motor Company, L&T Ltd and Tech Mahindra.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has extended a 7-year long-term loan of Rs. 1,000 crore to Aditya Birla Finance Limited. (ABFL), the NBFC arm of Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABC). ABFL is a diversified non-banking finance company (NBFC)

Market slips more than 577 points in the afternoon session in anticipation of an interest rate hike by the central bank. Sensex had a 5:26 advance to decline ratio at closing on Wednesday.

Inox Wind, India’s leading wind energy solutions provider, announced that CRISIL has upgraded its rating to ‘Positive’ from Stable.

Factor-based ETFs have given a better risk-adjusted return in the last one year, however, they are less popular among investors due to lack of the knowledge.

The buildings and factories business of Larsen and Toubro secured an order of Rs. 3,036 crore from the Bangalore International Airport Limited (BAIL) to build Terminal-2 of the Kempegowda International Airport.

The said order comprises of about 1,00,000 wheels amounting to US$ 3 million. The company expects that the above orders would repeat in the coming months.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 12.48 p.m. on October 03, 2018.

The markets on October 03, 2018 opened flat. BSE Sensex is trading at 36,387.11, down by 139.03 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,960.45, down by 47.85 points. 

The company has entered a deal to acquire majority stakes in the payment services company Livquik Technology. Reacting to the news, the stock of Future Enterprises Limited was buzzing during the morning session on Wednesday.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 86.22 lakhs contracts with a turnover of Rs. 7,74,323.22 crore.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 86.22 lakhs contracts with a turnover of Rs. 7,74,323.22 crore.

On Wednesday, the level of 11,044, which is the 100-D SMA, is likely to act as an immediate resistance followed by 11,110. On the downside, the levels of 10,930, followed by 10,800, are likely to act as a supports for the index. Stocks in news: HCL Technologies, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Future Enterprises, Mpahsis, Trigyn Technologies, Infosys, Minda Corporation, Coal India and IL&FS.

Indian markets are most likely to start the session on a watchful note as the cues from the Asian peers are mixed and the street will minutely track the movement of the Indian rupee and crude oil. 

The stocks most likely to witness significant movement on the bourses on October 3, 2018 are Rane Holdings, Gayatri Projects, Bharat Electrinics, Tata Motors, Lupin, and IL&FS.

Rise in gross redemptions to sales ratio in the last few months in the Indian mutual fund industry reflects the rising redemption pressure.

The Karnataka court passes judgement in favour of Bharat Electronics in Rs. 851 crore sales tax demand case. The company has also received a refund of Rs. 85 crore deposited as advance toward the tax demand.

Financial planning is one of the buzzword in mutual fund industry and insurance industry as well. But many people are not aware of what actually does financial planning mean. Let us find out what do you mean by comprehensive financial planning.

Bajaj Auto sold 5,02,009 units this September, which is 17 per cent more than the sale of 4,28,752 lakh units sold in September 2017. This is the highest ever monthly sales reported and has beaten analyst expectations.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 12.57 p.m. on October 01, 2018.

The markets on October 01, 2018 opened flat. BSE Sensex is trading at 36,128.58, down by 98.56 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,872.75, down by 57.70 points. 

GMR Airports Limited, a subsidiary of GMR Infra Limited has informed the exchanges that it has emerged as the highest bidder for the privatization project to be carried at Nagpur Airport.

The newbie banking stock hit its lower circuit limit of 20 per cent after the RBI froze Bandhan's MD’s and CEO’s salary and also prohibited the company from opening new branches.

The leading drug company was buzzing on Monday on the back of sale of its manufacturing facility in Bristol, Tennessee and regaining universals rights for its investigational antibacterial product DFA-02.

The state-owned construction firm, Engineers India (EIL) has secured its largest order ever of worth Rs. 5,000 crore. The company bagged this order from HPCL for execution of Rajasthan Refinery Project.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 80.70 lakhs contracts with a turnover of Rs. 7,14,419.80 crore.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 80.70 lakhs contracts with a turnover of Rs. 7,14,419.80 crore.

The company's Heavy Civil Infrastructure business has bagged new orders worth Rs. 7,489 crores. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has given an order for the construction of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP), Packages 1 and 4.

The zone of 10,850-10,880 will continue to act as a strong support zone for the index. However, a decisive breach of this support would result in a fall up to the level of 10,770. Stocks in news: Zen Technologies, Puravankara, Mahindra and Mahindra, Engineers India, BPCL, Kalpataru Power Transmission, NMDC, Indian Hotel, Tata Power, Bandhan Bank, Yes Bank and Bharti Airtel.

Indian markets are likely to kick off the truncated week on a flat note as cues from Asian markets are muted. Auto stocks will be in focus in today’s trading as auto companies will announce their September sales data. Additionally, the Nikkei Manufacturing PMI for September will be released today. The SGX Nifty has gained 10 points to 10,969, indicating a flat start.  

If you have a car that you wish to sell online, you would want to make sure that you get the best price for your car. But to get the best price, you need to make sure that the buyer is convinced about the worth of your car for the price he/she is paying. So, how do you ensure that you get the best deal? Here are a few tips: 

For the shareholders of these banks, the market will decide the valuation of the merged entity. As for the employees, the merger will not make much of a difference. But it might make some difference to the depositors and borrowers of these banks.

The protection against cyber risks offered by the policies include unauthorised online transactions on bank account or through debit/credit card, damage caused to an individual’s reputation in case any harmful information is published over the internet by criminals and the costs of pursuing and defending legal actions against the offending individuals.

The TPAs act as intermediaries between the insurance company, healthcare provider and the policyholder and thereby provide vital services to the medical and insurance industry.

If you have invested in mutual funds, you may be well aware that when you sell the units of mutual funds within a specified time, you have to pay exit load on the amount realised on sale of units. The exit load is usually payable if the units are sold within one year of purchase and the load is usually 1% of the sale amount.

After Yes Bank, here comes yet another action on a private sector bank. The  Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has barred Bandhan Bank from opening new branches and has also freezed the compensation of its  CEO.

Metal index was the top loser in the NSE sectoral indices and tumbled more than 5 per cent from the previous close. This was majorly in the wake of continued fall in the global alumina prices which fell 3 per cent in today’s trade. The prices fell ahead of Alcoa workers’ decision to call-off the strike, which would ease alumina supply.

Indian auto stocks got a bear hug with the Auto index plunging nearly 14.8 per cent in September from its high to low. Going ahead, the next two months would be keenly watched on the back of festive sales during Dashera and Diwali where sales are expected to bounce back.

The stocks most likely to witness significant movement on the bourses on October 1, 2018 are Ajmera Realty and Infra India Ltd., Tata Power, Yes Bank, Kitex Garments Ltd., Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. and Maithan Alloys Ltd. 

The stock of Infibeam Avenues had a free fall on Friday. The stock dipped more than 80 per cent intraday. It touched a new 52-week low of Rs. 69.15 per share.

Investment in debt funds should be used as a diversification strategy and should invest in funds that have durations matching your goal.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 1.16 p.m. on September 28, 2018.

The markets on September 28, 2018 opened up. BSE Sensex is trading at 36,402.98 up by 78.81 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,981.30, up by 3.75 points.

The construction arm of L&T has secured orders across its two business segments. The total order is valued at Rs. 1,477 crore. The share of L&T remained flat in the morning session

Indian Hotels Company has signed pact with R&R Hotels and Resorts to open a new Vivanta hotel in Kathmandu in Nepal. This will be the company's second hotel in Nepal after Meghauli Serai in Chitwan National Park in Nepal.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 2.09 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 18,94,898.56 crore.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 2.09 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 18,94,898.56 crore.

There are lot many questions revolving around where to invest money if your investment time horizon is one or two years. Should one go with equity investment or debt investment. Read on more to find out.

The shares of JSW Steel rose by around 2 per cent after NSE announced that it will be replacing Lupin in the benchmark NSE Nifty50 index with effect from Friday.

Despite all the hue and cry in the market regarding the business of NBFCs, JM Financial's arm  JMFCSL managed to raise Rs. 650 crore from financial investors.

Going ahead, the immediate previous low of 10,866, which was marked on September 21, is likely to act as a strong support level, and on the upside; the level of 11,040 is likely to act as an immediate resistance level, followed by 11,100. Stocks in news: LEEL Electricals, Redington, Karnataka Bank, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank, Reliance Communication, Astec Lifesciences, Kesoram Industries and PNB.

Indian shares look set to open higher on the final trading session of the week as positive cues from global markets may lift investor’s sentiments. The SGX Nifty has surged 49 points to 11,092, indicating a gap-up start to the day.

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The stocks most likely to see significant movement on the bourses on September 28, 2018 are Bank of Baroda Ltd., Leel Electricals Ltd., SREI Infrastructure Finance, L&T and Indo Amines Ltd.

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.

The following table lists top-ranked equity funds based on DSIJ's proprietary research methodology.

Subros Limited will issues 52.5 lakh equity shares of the company on a preferential basis to Denso Corporation, Japan. Denso will now hold 20 per cent stake in the company.

The current volatility in the market has created its own winners and losers in equity mutual fund. Read on to find the funds and categories that were worst and best performer in last one week.

Age old wisdom suggests that real investing is boring and it’s very simple. However, in reality, what is simple and boring has turned out to be tedious and difficult for most investors to follow. Owing to the lack of financial education, retail investors end up basing their money decisions based on what are the options available and which of it is convenient to carry out, without much thought.

This is our mutual fund recommendation. Every fortnight, we recommend one open-ended equity diversified fund that has the best potential of returns for the next one year considering its constituents remain the same.

It was great reading your SIP edition (Issue No.19). One of the complex things for me was to understand how taxation works in case of mutual funds as there are different kind of funds and their durations also different. Your story made it simple to understand.

There was a lot of confusion among the investors regarding the mutual fund schemes, which came to rest post the SEBI guidelines on mutual funds re-categorization. So, let's find out what are the subcategories of equity mutual funds.

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In this edition, we have reviewed for two stocks. 

I bought 100 shares of Hindustan Uniliver at Rs 1663. Kindly suggest whether I should hold or sell this stock. 

The market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in its latest meeting has decided to cap the expenses ratio charged by the fund houses to investors. This change in slab rate of expense ratio is being done after a gap of almost 22 years and this change is for the first time after the slab rates were introduced in the year 1996.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 1.03 p.m. on September 26, 2018.

There are many concerns in the minds of investors when it comes to investing in mutual fund. With the indices trading at all-time highs, investors are wondering whether the markets would start falling sharply from these levels or there would be a minor correction in the market. Recently, we saw the equity markets falling from the recent highs by 3-5 per cent.

The markets on September 27, 2018 opened flat. BSE Sensex is trading at 36,395.49 down by 146.78 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,996.30, down by 57.50 points. 

The power business of Larsen & Toubro has won orders worth Rs. 1,400 crore. The business has received two orders for setting up Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) systems from NTPC at its Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Plant in Madhya Pradesh and Darlipali Super Thermal Power Project in Odisha

The Sensex and Nifty are up by more than 15 percent year till date, however, individual portfolios and smallcap and mid-cap dedicated funds are in red. DSIJ explains how you can imitate the returns of frontline indices.

BSE receives another feather in its hat by getting SEBI’s approval to launch Commodity Derivatives Segment from October 1, 2018. BSE will begin trading in commodity derivatives with non-agriculture commodities like metals initially, followed by agri commodities subsequently.

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. 

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The company extended the deadline for its IPO by three days until October 1, 2018. Volatile market conditions seems to have dampened investor appetite for initial public offerings.

We had talked of the bearish reversal in our previous issue and, accordingly, our benchmark index Nifty plunged sharply breaching all the crucial supports and hit below the 11,000-mark.

There is a sense of deja-vu among many stakeholders of the domestic mutual fund industry after the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), capped the expenses of mutual funds and linked them to the assets under management (AUMs). Almost nine years ago, when SEBI had banned the entry load, doomsayers had predicted the end of the mutual fund industry in India. Nine years down the line, mutual fund industry has emerged stronger than ever. The growth in mutual fund industry has been phenomenal. Since year 2009, the domestic AUMs have witnessed an annual growth of 17%. It has increased from around Rs5 lakh crore to Rs25 lakh crore.

In a bid to reign the widening fiscal deficit gap and curb the depreciation of the Indian Rupee, the government has increased import duty on several discretionary goods. The 19 consumer items include air conditioners, refrigerator, washing machines, footwear, jewellery articles, precious metal wares and bath accessories. 

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT service, consulting, and business solutions organization, has announced that TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure has been selected by the Kuwait Clearing Company (KCC) for Central Counter Party (CCP) Services.

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The market reacted excessively to the contagion risk arising from IL&FS’ defaults and the rising borrowing costs of NBFCs, thereby triggering a dumping of DHFL and other major NBFC stocks.