Indexation or Not – The Issue
The recent Budget presented by the Government sought to rationalise the Capital Gains tax levied on different asset classes, such as the sale...
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How Are Non-Equity Mutual Funds Taxed?
We just covered how equity mutual funds taxed are in the last post. You can find it here. There is a reason why...
How Are Equity Mutual Funds Taxed?
This is the first post on a new series of blogs on how gains on your mutual funds are taxed. As per feedback...
Passive Funds Are Not So Passive!
Recently we covered index funds/Index ETFs in a blog, To recapitulate,index funds are pooled investments that mirror an index like the Sensex, Nifty50,...
Everyone Has Their Own Money Trauma!
If there is no money to pay rent or to put food on the table the agony is clear and present. The urgent...
Howards Marks – The Magician Whose Predictions Have Always Come True!
There are legendary investors in markets who share their wisdom with us from time to time. Howard Marks is one of them, co-founder...
TCS on International Credit Cards & Rs. 2000 Notes
An important issue that has been dominating domestic headlines over the last few weeks has been the recent Government announcement regarding imposing TCS...
Why The Gold Rush?
Gold prices are all fired up, close to Rs.62000 for 10gms for 24 ct (99.9% purity ) gold. Five years back in 2018...
From Time’s – The 100 Most Influential People to Jail, Who is Elizabeth Holmes?
This is the fascinating story of Elizabeth Holmes & her company Theranos, a Silicon Valley startup that professed to produce a medical diagnostic...
IMF Bailouts – A Mixed Bag
Post the difficult pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 the world was witnessing a nascent recovery starting in 2022 but the subsequent Russian-Ukrainian...