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India Union Budget 2021 Review - FM does a Pujara, now need Pant for execution!

Allaying all fears, the FM presented a brave budget. She took all Covid-19 blows on (fiscal) body (Like Pujara) and refused to yield to fiscal pressures. She prudently refused to indulge in allurements of raising resources through additional taxation. The Budget for FY22 is continuation of various measures announced during 2020 to support the economy. It is now upon the administrative ministries, departments and state governments responsible for executing the proposals (like Pant).

India Union Budget 2021 Preview - What NOT to expect?

Presentation of Union budget, every year by the finance minister follows a similar script. A great build up before the budget presentation; a long speech; a strong feeling of regret for being Indian middle class; distribution of some goodies for the poor; and higher taxes for rich. Almost every time, people end up disappointed and disillusioned after the fine print of the budget are explained to them the next morning. We discuss what NOT to expect from budget!

New regulations for NBFC - Jan'21 RBI Discussion Paper

RBI has proposed a scale‐based approach to regulate NBFCs – taking cognizance of their rising share in the financial system and a potential systemic risk spill‐over.  Under this approach, the degree of regulation for an NBFC will be commensurate with the perception of risk the entity poses to the financial system. We discuss the key points from this discussion paper

Best of 2020 OTT Recommendations

Welcome to Episode 3 of Investing Alpha series. 
And today we will touch upon a market related topic but slightly off the tangent - we will talk about some of my favourite movies, documentaries and web-series across various OTT platforms. As we all know, post the lockdown the bingeing on OTT platforms increased, so last year I had an opportunity to watch a bit more than usual. Do listen to these 10 recommendations!

Key trends to watch out in financial markets in 2021

The two thousand twentieth year of Christ has come to an end. This year has been totally forgettable and remarkably transforming at the same time. We discuss few key economic, social and political trends to look in the coming year. Wishing all the listeners happy and prosperous new year 2021!
 
 

Financial markets post US Elections 2020

The US elections were held last week and after a close fight, It is expected that the Biden and Democrats are more likely to win the elections but Trump antics could mean that policy uncertainty translating into market volatility could persist in November also. We discuss November market conditions in this podcast, flows to EM with dollar weakening, why investors should persist with their strategy despite election volatility and why IT theme is likely to grow post US elections.