What to do when market falls
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What to do when market falls

I can feel the nervousness in the air, everyone is unsure about the future. The glorious story about India’s economic growth, and India being the next economic super power is suddenly into question now. It seems as if everything that could go wrong, is going wrong, all at once. The rupee is at an all-time low, important financial institutions such as IL&FS, DHFL and Yes bank are facing problems of their own. Both the debt market and the equity market are feeling the jitters. The small cap index is at a multi-year low and the much hyped mid-cap and small cap funds are facing the heat.

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How to Start Investing in the stock market?
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How to Start Investing in the stock market?

When I remember my earlier days in the stock market, I wonder at my helplessness. There was no one to handhold me, I was totally new to the investing world and I felt as lost as an alien on earth.

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How to Value a Holding Company?
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How to Value a Holding Company?

Holding company is a company that is created to buy and own the shares of other companies. They either don’t have an active business apart from investments or it’s a very small part in comparison to their investment corpus.

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Why investment in Retail & e-commerce is Risky?
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Why investment in Retail & e-commerce is Risky?

There are certain characteristics that are common across all fundamentally good business, one such characteristic is “pricing power”.

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Should you invest in an IPO?
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Should you invest in an IPO?

IPOs create a lot of excitement amongst investors. Business newspapers & T.V channels make it a point to tell you how "advisable" it is to subscribe to this new offering. So let's find out the hard facts behind these IPOs

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Philip Fisher's investing Checklist

Philip Fisher published his 15-point Checklist for selecting stocks in his renowned work “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits”. Here the 15 points to help you in your Stock Selection

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What are Sweat Equity Shares?
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What are Sweat Equity Shares?

Sweat equity shares are a powerful tool that can be used to align the interests of employees and the company. It is the shares that a company gives to its directors or employees for their contributions in the form of knowledge, intellectual property, or other value additions instead of cash.

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