Getting the wrong message

COVID and related events caught most investors unawares. That does not mean that reacting to every event is important.

Slow money

There are large delays in the payment systems for investing in mutual funds since February 1

The road ahead

This would have looked all but impossible 10 months ago, but for investors this is a time to be quite positive for the future

How to be a billionaire

A thousand here and a thousand there and pretty soon you're talking about real money

The capital-gains tax should be indexable

The unavailability of cost-indexing for gains made on equity-based investments is an avoidable inconsistency in the tax system

Your timing temptation

Investors can hear the clock ticking and are striving to time a perfect exit from the booming equity market. Don't make this mistake.

A standardised measurement of risk?

SEBI's new risk meter has started operating. It's a useful tool but investors need to understand it.

A warning for the future

Even though a 90 per cent plus vote bodes well for investors, the Franklin affair raises some troubling questions for the future

The 10 per cent tax hit

This is the first year that meaningful tax harvesting is possible on the long-term capital-gains tax on equity holdings. Is it worth it?

Sell and run?

This is just the kind of time when compared to buying a mutual fund, investors often make worse decisions when it comes to selling them