In the last 9 months, the Indian equity market has been underperforming global assets. Therein lies an opportunity.Investors can diversify out of Indian equities into debt and global assets via RBI’s Liberalised Remittance Scheme or even with exchange-traded funds in India, against rupee payment

A small portion of the estimated ₹10,000 crore AT1 bonds issued by the bank are also held by individual investors.Many of the investors are guilty of believing that the bonds are as safe as FDs and will give better returns

The fall of about 30% in the markets in the first two weeks of March allowed investors to take advantage of lower stock prices.To be sure, a single investor can have multiple folios and the 50% jump does not mean that the number of new investors has jumped by 50%

Physical market participants also noted the effect of coronavirus-related restrictions on gold trading

Employees will have to inform their employers about their intention to opt for the new optional tax regime to enable the latter to deduct TDS while paying salaries, says CBDT

Retail borrowers who are facing difficult times, and are unable to repay their loans even after the moratorium ends, will get another three months to regularise their loans.As a standard practice, lenders need to classify a loan as NPA if a borrower doesn’t repay for 90 days.

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