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Published On - January 8, 2025

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Madam Finance Minister……

Madam, congratulations on becoming the Finance Minister with the continuous maximum number of Budgets presented in the Parliament in India. I am sure the record will hold for a long, long time. During your tenure madam, there has been a number of pain points that you have had to deal with. Political...
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Published On - September 19, 2024

Prasunjit Mukherjee Consumer interest, Equity Schemes, Funding Trends, Investing, Investment Styles, Investments, Mutual Fund Company, mutualfundsahihayeTags: , , , ,

Direct Mode of Investment is DUMB!

Date First Published: January 18, 2018   The retailer is always seen as the money making Shylock, who has no scruples as long as it makes money FOR HIM – irrespective of businesses or products. Just think of the vegetable seller in times of onion crisis (which happens with a twice a year regu...
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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 15, 2024

Prasunjit Mukherjee Business Services, Consumer interest, Economic trends, Finance & Accounting, Investing, Investments, mutualfundsahihaye, UncategorizedTags: , , , ,

The Current Account Deficit. Is it important any more for us?

We all keep on hearing of the Current Account Deficit close to budget time and then sometimes when we switch on the business channel. Most of us know what it is – a measurement of a country’s trade where the value of the goods and services it imports exceeds the value of the products it export...
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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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Published On - January 2, 2024

Prasunjit Mukherjee Business Plans, Consumer interest, Economic trends, Equity Schemes, Investing, Investment Styles, Investments, mutualfundsahihayeTags: , ,

To equity or not to equity

As we come to the start of calendar 2024, it is time to take stock of the current state of the economy and what it holds for us moving forward. But before we delve into the subject let us take some time to describe the astonishing growth the year has given so far. The midcap […]...
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There is nothing right about war, only what is left.

Published On - October 25, 2023

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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

Prasunjit Mukherjee Finance & Accounting, General economics, Investment Styles, Investments, mutualfundsahihayeTags: , ,

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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