Do you know you are already holding Bitcoin and other crypto currencies? Are you someone who invests in global or US based mutual funds from India, then you might already be holding some bitcoin and other crypto currencies. Does it sound confusing, well, actually not. Let’s discuss about this in detail. As an indian investor,…
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Are you investing in US or Other Global Market Funds from India? Then, you might be betting against Rupee. Let’s try to understand how and why this happens. There are lot of mutual funds available in India, which can be used to invest in global markets, including US, Euro & other developed and developing markets. In…
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What is Tax Loss Harvesting: Another way to save tax In the last episode, we discussed about LTCG tax harvesting, which is a way to reduce the tax burden created by profits from equities. Likewise, we can use any losses we have and use it to reduce taxes as well. In tax-loss harvesting, you book…
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What is Tax Harvesting? In this episode, we are sticking to Tax harvesting from LTCG in equities. What is LTCG? Long capital term gains are the returns you make by selling your equity investments held for more than 12 months Currently Long-term gains from equity is taxed at 10%. But LTCG upto 1L rupees per…
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What is portfolio Rebalancing and why it is most important in Investing? As an investor, everyone should have an asset allocation. We have discussed about this in detail at the start of this investment series. In short, considering we are investing for long-term goals which is at least 10 years away, · If you are…
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How I turned 1 Rupee into 17 Lakh Rupees in 2 Years?
This post is about my favourite Stock – TANLA. If you are following us from last 2-3 years, you will already know TANLA is one of my favourite stocks. I have posted at least 20-30 times in the last few years about my investment in TANLA and how I’m handling it.
Before we get into the details, you should understand “How the Professional Investor Invests their money”.
What is SPAC?
SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, raised around 300 billion dollars in 2021 so far. These are “blank check” shell companies that have no operations or business plan other than to acquire a private company using the money raised through an IPO, thereby enabling the private company to go public quickly.
How to invest in US equity from India?
Short answer: Try to Invest in a cost-effective manner. For smaller corpus, it makes sense to invest via India-domiciled mutual funds that invest overseas, while for someone with a larger corpus, it could be cheaper to invest directly
Are cryptocurrencies a good investment?
• Cryptocurrencies may go up in value, but many investors see them as mere speculations, not real investments. Reason is simple, Just like real currencies, cryptocurrencies generate no cash flow, so for you to profit, someone has to pay more for the currency than you did.
• That’s what’s called “the greater fool” theory of investment. Contrast that to a well-managed business, which increases its value over time by growing the profitability and cash flow of the operation.
• But a crypto currency like bitcoin don’t have anything to back it, it’s value is created out of thin air. It doesn’t have any value, it’s value is 0. It is currently running just on blind faith, but day is not too far that everything will fall apart.
NAV of Regular Plans are lower than Direct Plans in mutual funds. Shouldn’t I buy low and sell high? In that case, shouldn’t I be buying regular plans over direct plans in mutual funds?
The NAV of regular plans is lower because it includes distributor commission and it’ll always be lower than the NAV of its direct plan counterpart. In this case, your purchase price doesn’t matter. What matters, is the rate of growth after you purchase.