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Indian venture capitalists need to pivot to a new model of investing
Indian venture investors are shifting focus from tech startups to safe havens, including direct-to-consumer brands. The trend is towards larger fund sizes, profitability, and slower growth, resembling mid-market private equity. AI investments are lacking in India, leading VCs to diversify into offline spaces and PE territory.
Plan to invest Rs 10 lakh post election outcome; Kaustubh Belapurkar gives asset allocation strategy
Most investors are best served by investing into diversified equity funds, where fund managers will express their conviction on sector/themes stocks, with graded underweight/overweight calls.
Unlisted shares offer terrific returns, but also carry very high risks; should you invest?
In the past decade, many Indians have embraced the equity culture and started investing in stocks and equity mutual funds. Some analysts feel that retail investors should put money in unlisted shares if they want outsized returns. Other financial advisers say retail investors should not dabble in unlisted shares for the simple reason that the risk they entail is not worth the rewards they offer.
India well-poised to get to $80-100 billion PE-VC deployment in 5 years: report
Private equity and venture capital firms remain cautious due to global macro conditions in 2024. India is expected to benefit from outsized capital allocation, reaching $80-100 billion in annual deployment over the next five years.
IPL Portfolio: Picking stocks like selecting a cricket team, says Arvind Kothari
Arvind Kothari draws parallels between crafting investment portfolios and selecting cricket teams, advocating a mix of specialists, all-rounders, and x-factor options to navigate market dynamics and outperform the competition. "Our investment portfolio primarily focuses on high-growth sectors that have significant potential for future growth and are expected to perform well, such as Make in India, Recycling Trends, Energy Transition, Consumption, and Defense, among others."
Bulk of correction in small, midcaps over; days of IT largecaps are numbered: Nilesh Shah, Envision Capital
Nilesh Shah anticipates largecap IT decline, supports specialised technology services growth. He believes online consumer or the online fintech space are the businesses which are making rapid strides. While acknowledging market froth, advises against tactical allocations. shifting funds from small and midcaps to largecaps Further, Shah emphasizes bottom-up opportunities, energy sector potential, and regulatory risks in the insurance sector.
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Are there more legs to the rally in PSUs or is this space getting frothy? Rajeev Mantri explains
Rajeev Mantri of Navam Capital says regulator action and frothiness in smallcap and midcap segments have spooked the market. Privatisation of PSUs, attractive investment themes in metals and banking stocks, and alignment with renewable energy, healthcare, and fintech sectors are key areas of interest. Metals and banking stocks are looking very attractive and it also plays into the larger theme of the privatisation policy.
ETMarkets AIF Talk: See debt AIFs becoming a core allocation for HNIs in 2024: Vivriti Asset Management
"We are also underweight on lending based on event risks such as IPOs/PE equity infusion etc. So, you will typically not see start-ups/bridge to equity etc be any significant part of our portfolios. The converse to this is partly true too – we are constructive on industries catering to domestic demand and those which benefit from government-led capex allocations."
ETMarkets Smart Talk: We see reasonable valuations in sectors like financial, largecap IT and pharma: Harshad Patil
"We believe that despite the strong market performance and handsome gains in certain sections of the market, there are pockets of reasonable valuations available and would suggest long-term investors stay put and benefit from the compounding gains over the years. We have observed over several market cycles that the market tends to give outsized returns in spurts and any endeavour by a long-term investor to time the market may lead to their missing out on such possible outcomes."
WhiteOak Capital Multi Cap Fund launched; Should you invest?
The investment objective of the scheme is to provide long-term capital appreciation / income by investing across market capitalisations and managing a diversified portfolio of large cap, mid cap and small cap stocks.
Why is the $9-10 billion market cap of Zomato, Paytm justified? Hiren Ved explains
“If for the whole of the country, there are going to be only two food delivery companies, then the opportunity is much bigger and today maybe a 100 million customers out of 1.4 billion are using a service like this. Five years out, 200 million, 250 million of the middle class households might use that and then the frequency of use might improve.”
ETMarkets Smart Talk- Small & midcaps likely to generate outsized returns in next 2 years: Yogesh Kalwani
If one looks at Fed rate hike cycles since the beginning of CY2000, the market has witnessed 4 such cycles – Mid-1999 to Mid-2000, June 2004 – June 2006, Dec-15 – Dec 18, and the current cycle over the past 12 months.
ETMarkets AIF Talk- Lot of family offices and UHNIs are now actively investing in these bond strategies: Mohamed Irfan
This space is quite different from the traditional high-yield asset classes of promoter finance, loan against shares, distressed debt, venture debt, real estate financing etc.
Crude prices to remain in narrow range, to have limited impact on economy and companies: Seshadri Sen
So, there is not a great deal of upside from credit costs from here. So, earning growth will be challenged and when you are coming off such a high earnings growth in FY23, FY24 earnings growth will look a little anaemic.
Mortgages, wine and renovations: Silicon Valley Bank's deep tech ties
And when SVB held an annual event in January on the state of the wine industry, it featured speakers from Wine.com, one of the world's largest online wine retailers and a company that Kleiner had once invested in.
Should you put fresh money to work at these levels? Neeraj Dewan answers
"I want to basically create a portfolio which will have stocks like L&T, NCC in the infrastructure or maybe IndusInd Bank, Canara Bank and even HDFC Bank in the banking space. There can be some soft commodities or food companies like Daawat and metal companies like Vedanta. I would want a little balanced portfolio for this year "
Play the market like a casino; Samir Arora on how to beat it in investment game
“We put down 15 bets of 2 per cent to 3 per cent each with reasonable confidence in high returns. These are the stocks for which you do with as much detail as you would do for a 5-6-7% position which is normally a big position for us; but you are confused.”
Overweight on auto; wary about corporate capex driven banks: Nilesh Shetty
“We do not have a lot of commodities but whatever we had, we trimmed a significant portion of their weights primarily on valuations because in cyclical upturns, their valuations have started trading at premium valuations compared to their historical bands. We have trimmed that and we are waiting patiently. ”
ESG-focused PE fund allocation more than doubled in 2021; AUM to further expand in five years: Bain & Co report
The report--India Private Equity Report for 2022--said India-focused funds expect ESG considerations over their PE AUM assets under consideration to grow to 90% over five years from now, up from only 39% five years ago, indicating a significant acceleration in ESG adoption across the sector.
Venture capitalists catch crypto fever
VC investment in such projects totalled $10 billion globally in the first quarter of this year, the largest quarterly sum ever and more than double the level seen in the same period a year ago, according to data from Pitchbook.
ETMarkets Smart Talk: We are finding value in financials, auto, IT & consumer staples: Amit Joshi
"Inflation affects different asset classes in different ways. Generally fixed income returns would be impacted more as compared to equities where inflation-linked sectors will do better. The key is to maintain a well-diversified portfolio across all asset classes. However, the real return expectations should be moderated during high inflation scenarios. The portfolio should be aligned to commodity producing sectors which are expected to do better than commodity user sectors."
Keep aside emotions, be process-oriented while making investment decisions: Charandeep Singh
‘We have a process which is system driven and which throws out the best performing sectors. We allocate capital to the best performing stocks within those sectors.’
New direct listings won't spell the death of IPOs
The financial regulator greenlighted the New York Stock Exchange's request last week to allow companies to raise money in stock market debuts through direct listings, without using underwriters as is customary with IPOs.
Not only largecaps, allocate to mid & smallcaps too in 2020: Vikas Khemani
As liquidity trickles down, it will have a cascading effect on growth and demand revival. We will see risk-on coming back as the liquidity starts flowing in. When you have abundant liquidity, after safety starts chasing returns, that will see the wide gap between midcaps and largecaps narrowing down. We are positive on 2020 from equity market and growth perspective.
Why Mahesh Patil is putting outsized bets in these 3 sectors
Expect better and stronger earnings growth in the small and midcap space focussed on rural theme.
3 sectors where you can take advantage of correction to make money: Nilesh Shah, Envision Capital
"IT remains a very attractive segment, especially the tier-2 names."
We’re overweight on auto, private sector financials & capital goods: Prasun Gajri
We are in a range-bound market as far as interest rates are concerned.
Next multibaggers may come from private financials, cyclicals: Hiren Ved, Alchemy Capital
Cyclicals could be infra, capital goods, cement and it could be anything among these which is linked to recovery in economic growth, says Alchemy Capital CIO.
How to cut risk and increase returns by rebalancing your investment portfolio
Over time, differential returns from different asset classes can significantly change the asset mix of your investment portfolio.
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