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Published On - September 18, 2024

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The Rapid Rise of Interest Rates

Date first published: August 29, 2018 So, the mandarins in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) met and took a decision on the interest rates. And the decision was to raise interest rates. Base interest rates are of two kinds – the Repo and the Reverse Repo. The Repo is the interest rate charged by [&h...
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Published On - June 6, 2024

Prasunjit Mukherjee Competitive Research, Consumer interest, Economic trends, Equity Schemes, Finance & Accounting, Funding Trends, General economics, Investing, Investments, mutualfundsahihayeTags: , , ,

The grand election festival is over. Let’s move on.

The grand nationwide jamboree lasting nearly 3 months is done and dusted. I, like many others have been glued to all kind of screens – the television, the office desktop, the laptop and the mobile and have consumed hours and hours of television and social media content. So has a large part of the ...
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Published On - May 20, 2024

Prasunjit Mukherjee Competitive Research, Finance & Accounting, General economics, Mutual Fund Company, mutualfundsahihayeTags: , , ,

The Biggest Money Managers. The Biggest Money Management Cities.

Money surely makes the world go around. And this is clear from the way the lot of us keep on chasing it through every hour of the day and night that we live. But who are the biggest money managers in the world and to put an interesting twist, which are the specialist money management […]...
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Published On - April 30, 2024

Prasunjit Mukherjee Consumer interest, Economic trends, General economics, Investing, Investments, mutualfundsahihayeTags: , , , ,

Wars, Elections and such irritants.

When was the last time you have seen a year go by without a war in some form or the other, in some scale or the other happening somewhere around the world. The famous political theorist, Francis Fukuyama, famously commented: the end of the Cold War marked “the end of history,” a triumph of ca...
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There is nothing right about war, only what is left.

Published On - October 25, 2023

Prasunjit Mukherjee Consumer interest, Economic trends, General economics, Investing, Investments, mutualfundsahihayeTags: , , , ,

Making sense of the conflicts and the Markets

It is the season to feel a bit lost for most of us in West Bengal and for many others all over the world. Our favourite daughter had come home with her children and she left us to return to her own house and her husband in the hills. A bit of a respite from […]...
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Published On - October 16, 2023

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Asset Allocation: The magic mantra

Markets rise and markets fall. Industries and sectors come and go out of focus and attention. Hot shot companies and their share prices see insane growth and then loose it all while some other “new” favourite hogs all the limelight. The stock markets look like a super crazy place where even more...
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Published On - October 10, 2023

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Durga Pujo – The Mega economic event every year

Durga Pujo. Ask any Bengali or a Kolkatan and she will turn misty eyed. Enquire after anyone living in Bengal or perhaps the eastern part of the country and she will be busy either making (selling) or buying in the days and weeks leading up to the pujo. There is hectic activity all around and [&hell...
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