Issue of 25th Sep-1st Oct 2020
LEAD ARTICLE
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Does a Weekly SIP in Equity Schemes Perform Better Than a Monthly SIP?
The Internet has made it very easy for asset management companies (AMCs) to onboard customers, handle transactions and payments and offer a suite of value-added services to its mutual fund (MF) investors.    One such service is the systematic investment plan (SIP). An SIP allows investors to put in a fixed amount in an MF scheme, at... Read More
Clinton Fernandes
CROSSHAIRS
On 24 March 2020, the prime minister (PM) announced a hard, 21-day lock-down to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact on people and businesses was immediate and devastating. India is among the worst-hit economies with a 23.9% decline in GDP (gross domestic product) announced by the CSO...
STOCKS
For reasons not quite known to anyone, since April, the market has been on a tear, rising almost non-stop, but for a brief hiccup in early May. In the past few weeks, however, things have changed. From a high of 40,000 on 31st August, the market hit a low of 36,495 on 24th September with most...
Guidelines    1. The Grader captures the first two of the three intrinsic factors that drive a stock: valuation, returns and growth. Since growth is volatile and difficult to capture through a metric, we have used only the first two factors. In place of growth, we have provided...
Moneylife Digital Team
Bharat Rasayan Ltd (BRL) makes technical-grade pesticides, intermediates and bulk formulations. Its core competence is in the manufacturing of technical-grade pesticides.     BRL has two manufacturing plants in Dahej (Gujarat) and Mokhra (Haryana). The Dahej plant, spread...
Moneylife Digital Team
The stock of Indo Count Industries Ltd (ICIL), an exporter of home textiles, has shot up by 300% from around Rs25 in April to nearly Rs100 now. Are there fundamental reasons to be bullish on the stock or was the rally due to the small-cap mania we just witnessed in the June-August 2020...
Moneylife Digital Team
INSURANCE
Bharti AXA Life Insurance has launched a new bundled unit-linked insurance policy (ULIP) offering the benefits of insurance, savings and market-linked returns. ULIPs are similar to traditional insurance products. The difference is that the returns on the investment component of the product...
Moneylife Digital Team
HEALTH
Restricting calorie consumption has been proven to have many benefits and now a new study has revealed that body temperature plays a critical role in such diet-induced health benefits. Through their findings, the researchers are now hoping to create a medicinal compound that imitates the...
Akshay Naik
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