How investors can gain from the stock market correction

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How investors can gain from the stock market correction It's not a bear market yet. The warning signals — hyper speculation, companies without strong fundamentals leading the market, etc. — are missing. Tips from stock market experts on managing your investment portfolio during current volatility Here are investment tips and advice from five stock market experts on how to manage your portfolio and get the best out of the current stock market volatility. A stock market correction may not be the correct time to buy: View The usual advice dished out about investing in equity when the stock markets have dipped doesn't really stand up to close examination. From our Partners Managing Heart Diseases: Is Investing In Cardiac Care Plan The Way To Go? As Indians, it becomes especially important for us to prepare to cope against certain ailments because of our lifestyle. From our Partners Decoding the Bitcoin mania: Evaluating the risks, taxes and future of Cryptocurrencies in India Bitcoins have grown over the past few years from being an innovative reward that can be mined online that intrigued tech geeks to one of the most volatile decentralized digital currency. How Indian equity investors are reacting to current stock market volatility Instead of panicking, Indian investors are taking advantage of the market dip and investing in stocks and funds. Problem for investors: Evaluating a mutual fund on past performance will become difficult now Fund houses are busy positioning products into various buckets, which will strictly govern what type of securities they can hold in fund portfolios. Top Mutual Funds SCHEME NAME RATING 1 M(%) 6 M(%) 1 YR(%) 3 YRS(%) JM Core 11 Direct Plan-Growth 0.07 0.34 16.88 14.39 Kotak Select Focus Fund Direct-Growth -2.70 2.79 12.95 13.61 Kotak Select Focus Fund Regular-Growth -2.79 2.21 11.66 12.35 Mirae Asset India Equity Fund Direct- Growth -2.84 2.96 14.47 12.18 Invesco India Growth Fund Direct-Growth -0.63 8.06 22.93 12.13 FeaturedDSP BlackRock Bond Direct-Growth ★★★★★ 1.49 2.57 7.27 8.30 Start SIP Do foreign institutional investors generate more wealth than mutual fund managers? The investment patterns of institutional investors shows that FIIs tend to get is right more often than domestic mutual fund managers. Bet on small-caps with good earnings growth: Shankar Sharma, First Global A big macro economic crisis can also lead to a bear market, but the global economy is picking up now, says Shankar Sharma.

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Why investors get swayed by their emotions when the stock market falls ET Wealth looks at the factors that led to some of the biggest single-day falls in the Sensex and how investors get swayed by emotions. SEBI should consider these 5 measures to safeguard MF investors' interests: View There is no 'guaranteed' income in MFs and in fact, most investors are not aware that even their principal can erode if the market falls. Indian investors need both active and passive funds: Anil Ghelani, DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund "In India, active fund management will continue to retain the potential to generate alpha by outperforming the benchmark." Whether and when to borrow? Here are 3 rules that can help you decide We spend tomorrow's income today when we borrow. If the link between what we earn and therefore, what we can normally spend is broken, we fall into a debt trap. Should one buy house as an investment? It would be best for one to buy a house when he is able to evaluate his needs and when income and cash flows are not a constraint. Misreporting rampant in insurance forms: LexisNexis study The tendency to misreport is higher among those in the age group of 25-34 years and among those who consider their health to be poor. 5 upcoming gadgets to watch out for ET Wealth gives you a quick run-down of the several devices introduced by major global brands in the last week of March. What does a mutual fund's Portfolio Turnover Ratio indicate? High portfolio turnover indicates high transaction or trading costs, and therefore impacts the return for the investor. Kotak Tax Saver Fund: Needs to improve return profile This tax-saving fund has been rather inconsistent in its performance in recent years, lagging behind peers in its category. Family Finance: Why salaried Shirkes should defer buying house for five years Their goals include building an emergency fund, buying a house, saving for their child's education and wedding, their own retirement, and an annual vacation. Key elements to look out for in the Cibil report A credit score of more than 750 is typically considered to be a good score and is most likely to be eligible for sanction of a loan. Tax Optimiser: How Madhok can use NPS, health cover to cut tax outgo by over Rs 53,000 Paying too much tax? Write to us at etwealth@ timesgroup.com with 'Optimise my tax' as the subject to know how to reduce your tax. Stock pick of the week: Why analysts are bullish on NMDC shares Rising profits, likely improvement in sales, long earnings visibility and high cash flows among other things has made NMDC analysts' favourite. Mixed bag for fixed income investors: SBI hikes FD rates; small savings interest kept unchanged While the government decided to keep small savings rates unchanged, SBI has announced a hike in FD rates, offering a degree of relief to investors. Startup SunStrategic helps brands improve their return on investments SunStrategic works more like an inhouse team for brands and doesn't have to share ideas and strategies for free:Sherina Kapany, founder, SunStrategic. Alternative investment returns monitor: For the week ending March 28, 2018 Here's weekly tracker of returns from such investments. But don't compare these with traditional investments as the purpose of them is vastly different.

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