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Financial Market Round-Up – Jan’24

Truemind Capital

Most of the time, even the winners account for very low weight in the overall assets, resulting in miniscule contribution to the portfolio returns. For example, a stock rising by 100% in a year, if had a weightage of 1% in the overall assets, adds only 1% more return to the portfolio.

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The Economy vs. Interest Rates

Bell Investment Advisors

The broader economy surprises, too. With a seemingly unstoppable labor market and an economy that’s defied recession expectations, why have most financial markets declined since July? government is used to discount future cash flows, the expectation of higher rates drags down the price of stocks and bonds.

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Financial Market Round-Up – Apr’23

Truemind Capital

Equity Market Insights: The last quarter has seen one of the major shakeups from the prevailing easy situation over the last decade for the global economies. Thankfully, the Governments intervened to avoid major spillover effects on the overall economy. The Adani saga also aggravated volatility.

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Air Bags Deployed to Cushion Bank Crashes

Investing Caffeine

In recent years, COVID and a ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) caused out-of-control inflation to swerve the economy in the wrong direction. Investors were generally relieved by the government’s response, and the financial markets reacted accordingly. economy has been greatly exaggerated. The S&P 500 rose +3.5%

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Strategic Update – Q4 2023

Discipline Funds

Macroeconomic Overview Our macroeconomic forecast for 2023 called for a year of disinflation and “muddle through” That means we expected the economy to remain sluggish and for inflation to show positive rates of change that were sequentially slower. To learn more about our investment management service please contact us here.

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Three Things – Weekend Reading

Discipline Funds

In general, high rate debt like credit card debt is bad and certain types of low interest debt can be beneficial when the ROI is high(er) on the corresponding assets. 3) Why Does the US Government Issue Bonds? We issue bonds because the government is trying to control money demand when it runs a deficit.

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Fundamental Analysis Of Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company – Future Plans

Trade Brains

Today we will look at an important Financial Institution from the prestigious house of Murugappa Group. We will also understand the amount of assets it manages and use industry specific ratios to better analyse the Company. Lakh Cr worth of Assets under Management (AUM). 66,938 Cr or 63% of the NBFC’s total Assets.