Open a market app on any given week and the headlines can look contradictory. One says a global brokerage sees the Nifty rallying toward a fresh high. Another says a different brokerage just slashed its India target. A third maintains its call unchanged while everyone around it argues. None of the headlines are wrong, they are simply describing three different firms, published weeks apart, working from three different assumptions about the same handful of variables. These rou

For most of the past decade, algorithmic trading in India operated under a framework that SEBI put in place in 2012, designed primarily for institutional participants. Retail investors who ran automated strategies through broker APIs existed in a largely unregulated grey zone: the broker provided the interface, the retail trader ran the code, and the algo provider in between often had no formal accountability to anyone. That arrangement, which allowed unscrupulous operators t

A SEBI order appears on the regulator's website naming an individual, often someone with no obvious public connection to the company involved, and describing in granular detail how that person bought shares days before a price sensitive announcement, sold soon after the news broke, and pocketed a specific, calculated profit. Trades on Indian exchanges happen anonymously through brokers, with millions executing every single day. How does a regulator reconstruct, months or year

In one of the most significant moves to come out of the Indian startup ecosystem in years, Meta has announced a $900 million (₹ 8,500 Cr) investment in Bengaluru based fintech company CRED and confirmed that its founder, Kunal Shah, will leave the company to run WhatsApp globally as a full time Meta employee based at the company's campus in Menlo Park, California. The deal, announced on June 22, 2026, gives Meta a roughly 20 percent ownership stake in CRED at a post money val

You had a good year in the market. You redeemed a mutual fund that had grown significantly, sold some equity, or received dividends from several companies. The gains are real and the money is in your account. The tax return is due in July and you plan to declare everything there. There is nothing more to do before that, right? For many investors, this assumption is correct. For those whose tax liability from investment gains is large enough, waiting until July to pay the enti

Updated June 2026 · All figures inflation-adjusted Retiring at 40 is genuinely possible for a salaried professional in India who starts early, saves aggressively, and builds a diversified income architecture that does not depend entirely on depleting a single corpus. But it is harder, riskier, and requires a more sophisticated financial plan than most FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) content acknowledges. A 40-year-old retiree in India may live for 50 or more yea

Market Update: This article was written on 11 June 2026. Gold prices are moving rapidly. The figures cited reflect prices as of 9 to 10 June 2026. Verify current prices before making any investment decision. Gold hit an all-time high of USD 5,589 per troy ounce on 29 January 2026, and Indian investors who bought at those levels are watching a painful correction unfold. As of 9 to 10 June 2026, spot gold is trading near USD 4,165 per ounce, approximately 25 percent below that

Most investors who take tax planning seriously have filled their Section 80C limit long before March arrives. The Rs 1.5 lakh bucket gets distributed between PPF, ELSS, life insurance premiums, and home loan principal repayment without much deliberation. The form goes to the payroll team, TDS is adjusted, and the job feels done. It is not done. Section 80C is the most visible deduction in Indian tax law, but it is far from the only one. Beyond the Rs 1.5 lakh 80C limit, the o

New Delhi, June 8, 2026 India's capital markets regulator has made explicit what some in the fund industry suspected but few had tested: a family trust cannot sponsor a mutual fund. The clarification, issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India through its Informal Guidance Scheme, may seem narrow on the surface, but it lands at a moment when the mutual fund industry is in the middle of the most significant regulatory overhaul in three decades, and the question of wh