Avoid misplaced sympathy

In the US bailout for households that are unable to pay their mortgages is under consideration. A similar bailout in India would be misplaced

Unintended consequences

When the tech bubble burst, the Fed lowered interest rates and sowed the seeds of the present crisis. Will this bailout spawn the next crisis?

Time to stay put

Instead of asking around where to invest, the current situation, in which there are so many unknown unknowns, calls for letting your money rest in the bank

Squeezed between loans engendered by the lofty dreams of the boom years and the prospects of layoffs in a slowing economy, urban India will have to make a few hard choices — financial and lifestyle-related — to survive this downturn

Caution is the byword

The events of the last few months have made debt funds extremely cautious about liquidity mismatch

The flip side to listing

Listing of fixed maturity plans may not end the recent woes of this class of debt mutual funds.

Price correction, not default

While it is highly probable that prices will correct in the real estate sector, loan defaults haven’t become inevitable yet

Close to tipping point

The real estate sector has been in distress mode and might be close to tipping point

Done in by liquidity crunch

What has caused the current liquidity crisis in mutual funds? And what needs to be done to prevent its recurrence?

Crisis will have an impact

Make no mistake, the global financial crisis will affect the Indian economy by way of shortage of international credit and drying up of portfolios inflows

Sebi and Amfi join hands to check NAV manipulation

Market regulator Sebi and industry body Amfi are working together to standardise valuations of floating rate bonds.

Reconfiguring the financial world

As calls for stricter regulation get more strident, regulators will have to address how financial entities can be made less prone to failure without ruining their raison d’etre

Invest through ETFs

Commodity ETFs available in the US and other developed markets have emerged as an attractive investment option

Go by fundamentals

Investors pinning their hopes on an early recovery should peg their hopes on fundamentals, instead of going by technicals

Make home loan rates transparent

Borrowers will be able to anticipate changes to their borrowing rate only when the floating rate on home loans is pegged to an independent benchmark

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