investing in india

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In my previous post, I covered the popular deductions that have been disallowed under the current(new) tax regime. In this post, I will be covering the important deductions that are still allowed under the new tax regime. Here we go: Standard deduction of Rs. 50000 from salary Contribution...

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How much are you planning to buy? At what price?

Hi All, I am posting here first time. I work independently for a foreign employer, he sends me the salary through wire transfer Bi-Monthly in my Citibank Savings account (my previous firm opened it and I continue using this). I noticed that Citibank is charging very high conversion rate. He...

This is something I came across a long while back Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rohin-dhar/diamonds-are-bullshit_b_3708562.html In finance, there is a concept called intrinsic value. An asset’s value is essentially driven by the (discounted) value of the future cash that asset will...

30 Indian Small and Mid Cap Companies Recognized by Forbes as Asia's Best under a Billion 2023 Action Construction Equipment AGI Infra Apcotex Industries Beta Drugs BLS International Caplin Point Labs Century Plyboards City Union Bank Datamatics Global eClerx Elgi Equipments Fine Organics...

Hi folks, Want to know if there is a provision to declare capital loss on the sale of foreign shares and carry forward to subsequent years. Is this possible at all? If so, under what section should we be declaring such loss and for how many years that loss can be applicable? Wherever I look, I...

It is observed that the index of house price, had been growing at an annual average rate of about 20 percent (y-o-y) in 2011-12 and 2012-13. However, the pace of growth in the average house prices slowed in 2013-14 at 12.7 percent, plausibly reflecting a correction in trends on the back of...

Rs. 1,00,000 invested at 12% CAGR for 15 years is going to become around Rs. 5,50,000. But how to calculate such that we can see the final amount in today’s value by omitting inflation? If inflation is 7% pa, do we then say it’s growing at a CAGR of 5% from a pure profit point of view...

Context: https://zerodha.com/z-connect/tradezerodha/console/scrip-wise-charges-now-on-console I am yet not seeing this feature live for my account.

Source: https://boringmoney.substack.com/p/youtube-is-great-for-pump-and-dumps (my newsletter!) -- If you see a video on YouTube that asks you to buy a stock because it’s going to go up and make you rich, congratulations, you’re observing one of the oldest stock market scams—the...

Any thoughts on this fund? i am hearing this is a new concept and this is a good time (ofcourse, timing anything is BS!)

Another night another post. These forms relate to exemption from withholding of taxes in the USA(read: US version of TDS in India) and the standard rate of withholding is 30%. Tl;dr: You are required to file form W-8 BEN only and it allows you to avoid withholding in the USA. Plus it is easier...

Hello Indian Investors, I am a fresh college grad just started out in the industry. I would place my position as similar to this guy except with 0 earning/saving/investing experience(yet to receive my first paycheck) and very uncertain future plans. Current financials : 1L/mo post tax...

Let’s say you want to buy a DSLR to make YouTube videos. The MSRP is 50k. The seller asks you for a 10% premium because you will make money from videos shot on that DSLR. You agree. But then he demands a 20% premium, claiming that not only will you make money, but you'll also make more...

I'm trying to carry out an exercise to understand which mines determine the majority of the output of an ore. This is to be able to take fundamental calls on the production company. Is something like this possible to do? Any experience

The paywalled article is here: https://the-ken.com/story/nse-bse-and-the-benchmark-blues/ They have quite a few comments to make on MSCI indec since it has to rememeber the foreign holding limit in each stock. The main Nifty and BSE indeices are market cap weighted and don't suffer from...

Heard Investing in FDs is the safest investment, though it gives an interest rate of up to 5.15 -6.45% p.a. But the average inflation rate is 7.5% per year, which is greater than FDs. Is it still a good choice to invest in it, or what are the other schemes that we can use to protect ourselves...