Pension funds spike as one-year equity returns jump to 29 per cent: Report

Gaining from the bullish momentum in the equities market over the past year, pension funds have recorded an average annual return of nearly 30 per cent from their equity investments, per the latest PFRDA data, reported Business Line .  This average annual return of 29.35 per cent in equities in the first week of February is more …

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Will Nifty keep going up forever? Uday Kotak shares a Japanese lesson

As Nifty is ending the record-breaking year 2023 with a handsome upside of 20%, billionaire banker Uday Kotak on Friday warned Dalal Street’s Covid batch of investors of the unpredictability of the stock market, giving the example of Japan. “Many investors have joined post Covid. They have mainly seen upside. While the situation is not …

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Mutual funds overall AUM zoomed 23% in 2023 on bull run. Details here

They say that the rising tide lifts all boats. Amid the ongoing bull run, equity mutual funds jumped in their valuations, so much so that the industry’s overall asset size went higher by nearly 23 percent this calendar year until Nov 30. On Dec 31 last year, total assets under management (AUM) of the mutual fund …

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