(Originally published in MoneyControl.com)

Srikanth Meenakshi and Shankar Bhatt, FundsIndia.com

We were listening to the budget speech from the perspective of an individual investor in the country. We were looking for measures that would enhance the participation of investors in the capital markets in the country. A budget could do this in many ways – simply putting more money in investors’ pockets by reducing tax, encouraging tax-exempt investment contributions, making the investment process simpler etc. 

(Originally published in MoneyControl.com)

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Every year, the country awaits the pronouncements of the finance minister in the end of February with the anxiety and expectation akin to the one felt by relatives when an NRI comes home and opens his suitcase. Typically, everybody gets something but nobody gets everything they wanted or asked for.

(Originally published in MoneyControl.com)

(Originally published in MoneyControl.com)

(Originally published in MoneyControl.com)

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In previous essays in this series we saw the problems of having a large mutual fund portfolio and what is the right number of schemes to have in a portfolio.