Top 5 NBFC Stocks in India
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Top 5 NBFC Stocks in India

​​Retail banking in India is a massive domain that provides services from deposits to loans and everything in between. However, there is a specific sector that provides specific services. They’re not banking institutions but rather, Non-Banking financial institutions commonly known as NBFC.

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Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd IPO - Should you apply or not?
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Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd IPO - Should you apply or not?

A stellar year for the markets! The year gave dream runs to most of the stocks and mutual funds. Although this was entirely the result of the bull run, fund managers stole the thunder! Either way, the mutual fund sector was gaining traction at an increasing pace.

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Top 5 PSU Stocks to Invest in India
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Top 5 PSU Stocks to Invest in India

Usually, when we hear of PSUs, we believe that these companies are inefficient and lag in quality standards. The fear of these blocking the scarce resources of the country prevails, but there are always exceptions! Some of them function much better than private organizations and aim at societal development, making billions of cash every year. Which is why, strategically investing in these PSUs can prove to be good long-term investments.

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How to Invest in Unlisted Shares in India?
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How to Invest in Unlisted Shares in India?

Ola, Flipkart, PhonePe, Delhivery, and Byjus are all market giants in terms of valuations, the number of services and products offered, or their reach in the market. But unlike the bigwigs like Tata, HDFC, and Reliance, these firms are not listed on stock exchanges.

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Paras Defence and Space Technologies Ltd IPO - A hit or a miss?
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Paras Defence and Space Technologies Ltd IPO - A hit or a miss?

​​​​​Did you know India falls in the top 5 for its defence expenditure in the whole world! The government has been funding incumbents like DRDO, the Indian Armed Forces, and ISRO, which have been the torchbearers of the defence and space sectors for decades now. It’s no sorcery that the companies catering to the requirements of these institutions have evolved alongside the industry’s growth.

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What is Portfolio Management?
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What is Portfolio Management?

Portfolio management is much more complicated than stock analysis. Don’t believe us? Listen to legendary economist Adam Smith: “There is a personality difference between the people who are good at finding stocks and the people who call the shots on timing and manage the whole portfolio. Security analysts dig down information and come up with an idea about what should be bought or sold, but they do not necessarily make good conductors for the whole orchestra. [..]”

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Margin Trading : Why is it a double-edged sword?
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Margin Trading : Why is it a double-edged sword?

Phillip Carret once cautiously remarked - “I had a margin call in 1924, and I swore I would never buy on margin again.” But you must know there is much more in it than that. Margin trading, like a double-edged sword, carries the potential to create both billionaires and bankrupts. You would have even heard brokers competing with each other for this to lure people with lower margins and try to gain customers.

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FAANG Stocks : Best-performing Tech Stocks of the World
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FAANG Stocks : Best-performing Tech Stocks of the World

Years ago, Arthur C. Clarke said, “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” The Information and Technology industry has undoubtedly made a mark by reaching beyond the stars in the past decades, and nothing can beat its growth at this point.

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Different types of Financial Derivatives in India
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Different types of Financial Derivatives in India

India has the World's Largest Derivatives Exchange by Volume, as per a business article by Bloomberg. This is indeed a remarkable achievement as the NSE’s derivatives volume spiked by 57% to 5.96 billion contracts in 2019 compared to CME’s (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) 4.83 billion contracts.

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CANSLIM - A Bullish Strategy for Fast Markets
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CANSLIM - A Bullish Strategy for Fast Markets

Picking stocks from 5000+ securities that are listed on BSE is a hard game. This can be the most time-consuming task. What if you dedicate a whole day to learn about a business, and finally you find that the business is not profitable yet and you don’t even expect it to make any profits further? Or, what if you study everything about a business and finally find that it is overpriced? That's why filtering stocks is one hell of a task.

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Elcid Investment - A Penny Stock Worth ₹4 Lakh!
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Elcid Investment - A Penny Stock Worth ₹4 Lakh!

Imagine you are in the medieval age, and you have a piece of diamond worth one lakh gold coins. You were ready to sell it, but nobody quoted its price more than a single silver coin. Isn’t it ridiculous and so not digestible? How unfortunate and miserable would you feel?

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How does Technical Analysis work?
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How does Technical Analysis work?

“Analyzing charts really gives an impression of where the money lies.” Well, that's true to some extent; but this would garner mixed opinions. Indeed, Technical vs Fundamental has been one the most heated debates for years now.

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What are Overnight Funds?
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What are Overnight Funds?

What if we said you could have a low-risk and less volatile debt mutual fund that could be converted into cash within a day or so? Liquid funds, you ask? No No, even more liquid than liquid funds are these Overnight Funds!

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Best Tax-Free Bonds to Invest in India
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Best Tax-Free Bonds to Invest in India

What if we said you could have humble returns, liquidity, and zero taxability in a single instrument? That, too, is at a very low risk. Yes? Well, this blog is a must-read for you!

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Arbitrage Funds: The Right way of Leveraging Market Volatility
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Arbitrage Funds: The Right way of Leveraging Market Volatility

In the words of William Feather,

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What is Portfolio Rebalancing and how to do it?
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What is Portfolio Rebalancing and how to do it?

There is this famous saying that we’re sure you’ve heard, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. This phrase clearly states that one must diversify his funds and construct a portfolio that is the most feasible to him.

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Is Self Financial Planning difficult? Can you do it yourself?
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Is Self Financial Planning difficult? Can you do it yourself?

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” Aristotle was certainly ahead of his time when he said this. You'll understand why. Imagine you go to purchase your dream car, only to find something ridiculous! The dealer charged you a few thousand bucks and provided you with a message -

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Coffee Can Investing - The Right Way to Buy and Hold
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Coffee Can Investing - The Right Way to Buy and Hold

Do you invest in stocks? Do you follow any specific strategy while investing, or do you just buy the shares of a company on a friend’s advice who told you that the prices of that company would go up? You are probably staying too far from reality!

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