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Foreign investors are increasingly interested in the Indian corporate debt market as domestic government securities are set to debut on the JPMorgan Emerging Market local currency debt index on June 28, expected to bring in $20-25bn in passive inflows. Recent data indicates higher purchases in corporate bonds and ETFs, along with a strong demand for dollar bonds. Despite the current investments remaining tepid, investors can anticipate an uptick as more foreign investors engage with Indian debt instruments, which have traditionally been overlooked in favor of government bonds.

Shriram Asset Management Company (Shriram AMC) announced the launch of its growth liquid fund – Shriram Nifty 1D Rate Liquid ETF (Growth), an open-ended Exchange Traded Fund, tracking the Nifty 1D Rate Index.

The newly announced UCITS ETF will focus on healthcare and will be launched using HANetf's full-service white-label platform. As of 31 March, Harbor Capital had $56.8bn in assets under management. Speaking about the decision to partner with HANetf, Charlie McCain, CEO of Harbor Capital, said the Europe is the second largest regional ETF market in the world, with 16% of global ETF AUM. HANetf and EMQQ upgrade Emerging Markets Internet ETF to Article 8 «Working with HANetf provides us with a simple solution to bring our investment capabilities and brand into the European market – ...

Over the past decade, ETFs have seen a level of growth virtually unmatched by all other typical investment vehicles within the US, including mutual funds – and that’s been largely due to adoption among financial advisors and end-investors in the retail sector, according to a new report by Cerulli.

Why Zerodha MF believes its liquid ETF is ideal for traders If an ETF isn't traded very often, the spread can widen because there aren’t many participants to keep the prices close together. Examples of these include ETFs with low AUM or sectoral ETFs. During times of volatility, spreads can widen as market makers try to protect themselves from rapid price movements.

Bitcoin (BTC) has struggled to halt its losing streak, trading around the $60,750 level and reaching an intra-day low of $60,752. This recent decline in Bitcoin’s price can be attributed to several factors, including significant BTC transfers by the German government and ongoing regulatory challenges faced by major crypto exchanges.

mutual funds have dominated the returns chart in the first half of 2024, an analysis of the return charts showed. There were around 208 sectoral/thematic funds in the said period. The toppers in the list were from the infrastructure sector, defence sector and PSU sector. HDFC Defence Fund, the topper in the list, gave 55.22% return in the first half of 2024. Bandhan Infrastructure Fund and LIC MF Infra Fund, two infrastructure sector based funds, gave 43.43% and 40.67% returns respectively.

Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s oldest and most valuable cryptocurrency, managed to halt its overnight declines and regained some positive traction, reaching an intra-day high of $62,322.

₹1 lakh. In contrast, gains on debt mutual funds are taxed at the marginal rate of income tax, regardless of how long they are held. And in the case of real estate, the cut-off is two years, with capital gains taxed at the marginal rate of income tax in case property is sold within that span, and at 20% (after adjusting for inflation) if it’s held longer.

BlackRock has entered into a strategic partnership with financial technology firm GeoWealth, expanding its offerings in the $37 trillion US wealth market.

There’s gold in them thar portfolios. And a new study expects there to be even more soon.

Stock markets are neither static nor linear. If you observe the pattern of any market, you will see a cyclical trend. Equity markets globally go through cycles of rise and fall. Therefore, to describe the boom and bust of financial markets, terms such as ‘bull market’ and ‘bear market’ are used. When stock prices fall, it is a bear market, and when prices rise, it is a bull market.

Investors have pared exposure to sectors including renewable energy and electric cars as candidates in some of the dozens of nations holding polls this year have raised concerns over the costs and speed of efforts to curb emissions.

investors started investing in mutual funds over the last one year, taking the total number of unique mutual fund investors up to 46 million. Many more investors are likely to buy mutual funds in the coming months. Investors have an option to buy and hold their mutual fund units in their demat account or they can buy units from the fund house which does not require any demat account. HOW DO YOU BUY MUTUAL FUND SCHEMES? WHAT IS THE WAY TO HOLD THEM? Once you have chosen a mutual fund scheme to buy, the next step is to proceed to buy these units and execute your transaction. There are a number of ways to buy mutual funds, be it the fund house websites, RTA (registrar and transfer agent) websites, third-party platforms and stock brokers. Investors can opt for a statement of holding, or certain brokerages give you the option to hold units in a demat form. Some brokers only offer MFs in a demat form, while a few offer a mix of the two. Depending on the comfort and ease of an investor one can choose between the two. Investors who buy units in the physical form can later convert them into a demat form, by submitting a request to the depository participant and units bought in demat form can also be rematerialised back again.

Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s oldest and most valuable cryptocurrency, has struggled to halt its downward trend, falling below the $61,000 level and hitting an intraday low of $58,890. BTC has since recovered and is now trading above the $61,000 mark.

Bitcoin spot ETFs have been experiencing significant net outflows, with the trend continuing for seven consecutive days.

According to ETFGI's monthly report, active ETFs gathered net inflows of $27.5bn in May alone, bringing the total value since January to $125.1bn globally. Debunking the passive myth: active engagement in ETFs At the end of May, there were 2,612 active ETFs with a total of 3,246 listings globally and $889bn worth of assets. In addition, there were 449 providers listed on 37 exchanges in 29 countries. Net inflows for active equity-focused ETFs reached $16.3bn in May, bringing the year-to-date total to $74.3bn, surpassing the $41bn reached in 2023 overall. Meanwhile, actively mana...

Andrew Kang – the popular millionaire crypto trader and co-founder of Mechanism Capital – predicted on Monday a multi-billion dollar crypto crash to come before memecoins make a triumphant return.

The global crypto market cap is currently at $2.36 trillion, with a total volume of $95 billion traded during the last 24 hours, as per CoinMarketCap report. The surge in cryptocurrency market growth is attributed to recent approvals of Bitcoin ETFs in various countries, as well as Ethereum ETFs approved by the US SEC.

Failed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox will finally begin returning bitcoin (BTCUSD) to customers in July 2024, almost a decade after a massive hack forced it into bankruptcy.

June hasn't been kind to bitcoin: The price of the cryptocurrency briefly slipped below the $60,000 level Monday after it looked like it could surpass the previous all-time high of more than $73,000 earlier in the month.