Most people would agree that in India, cricket is more a religion than a game. The fanaticism surrounding it is only enhanced because of the sense of national pride that is wrapped up in it. Is the Indian Premier League (IPL) set to change all that?
Indian cricket fans have watched with bemusement as a clutch of industrialists and film stars bought up teams of cricketers, including a...
If you are not going to be an active trader , revoke the PoA that gives your broker access to your shares and the bank account linked to the demat account
On 17th March, when the Sensex went into a free fall, a businessman with a fairly dormant depository account with a large brokerage firm, idly decided to check the decline in value of his portfolio from the peak. When he checked his demat...
The Sensex is down 6,374 points (30%) from a high of 21,207 it hit on 10th January. How have the mutual funds negotiated the crash? Here is a snapshot of the performance of 192 funds (after excluding new and institutional plans) between 10th January and 17th March. A majority of these 192 (53% or 101 funds) have underperformed their benchmarks during this period while 89 funds (46%) have...
