Mint Delhi Decoded

Long before the days of Harshad Mehta, another big bull dominated Indian finance before falling prey to his own success. Sifra Lentin, Fellow, Bombay History Studies at Gateway House speaks to Neil Borate of Mint on India's first 'big bull' Premchand Roychand, the cotton and stock market boom of the 1860s and the collapse that followed. Lentin explains Roychand's legacy for Indian investors and businessmen.

Actor Salman Khan recently associated himself with India’s first 'social token'. Since July, India has had 7 new NFT marketplaces. But how do you buy and own them? What stops an NFT from losing value? The experts are Praphul Chandra, Founder, KoineArth; Pareen Lathia, Founder, Buidler's Tribe; Vishakha Singh, VP, WazirX NFT; and Srinivas Jain, Executive Director, SBI Mutual Fund

JP Morgan recently said institutional investors are preferring Bitcoin as an inflation hedge over gold. We ask a panel of experts if they should decrease gold allocation to add Bitcoin to their portfolio. The panel included Priti Rathi Gupta, Founder, LXME; Sidharth Sogani, Founder & CEO, CREBACO Global; Asheesh Chanda, Founder & CEO, Kristal.Ai; Harshad Chetanwala, Co-Founder, MyWealthGrowth.

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Low-interest rates on bank deposits combined with high consumer inflation have made a real returns on FDs negative. Mint speaks to a panel of experts on fixed income opportunities for safety-seeking investors.

Panel Members:

Niranjan Avasthi - Head - Product, Marketing, & Digital Business, Edelweiss AMC

Dilshad Billimoria - MD, Dilzer Consultants

Vijai Mantri - Co-Founder, and Chief Investment Strategist, JRL Money

Prasanna M - Head - Distribution, Vivriti Asset Management

Shiba Inu recently surged 35% after Coinbase listed the meme token on its platform. Shiba Floki spiked 1,000% after Elon Musk tweeted ‘Floki has arrived’. Meme coins or meme-based cryptocurrencies are volatile and unpredictable. We ask a panel of experts are meme coins worth the risk?

The panel included Deepali Sen, Founder, Srujan Financial Services LLP; Gaurav Dahake, Founder & CEO, Bitbns;

Rajagopal Menon, vice president-marketing, WazirX; and Atulya Bhatt, chief marketing officer, BuyUcoin

Driven by the rally in crypto assets over the last year, many investors in India took to investing in virtual currencies in hopes of making windfall gains. We ask a panel of experts how earnings from cryptocurrencies should be disclosed in an ITR form and what their legal status in India might be. The panel includes Naveen Wadhwa, Deputy General Manager, Taxmann; Divya Baweja, Partner, Deloitte India; Amit Singhania, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co; and Mathew Chacko, Partner, Spice Route Legal.

Including stocks in an investment portfolio is essential to building wealth over the long term. But is direct stock investing the right way to get exposure? How does taking the MF route compare to stock trading?

Panel Members:

D. P. Singh – Chief Business Office, SBI Funds Management

Kalpen Parekh – MD and CEO, DESP Investment Managers

Sailesh Raj Bhan – Deputy CIO - Equity Investments, Nippon India MF

Vijay Kedia – MD and Founder, Kedia Securities

Sandeep Bhardwaj – CEO - Retail Broking, IIFL Securities

Pankaj Pandey – Head – Research, ICICI Securities

SIPs are touted as the magic formula of wealth creation, but are there things to keep in mind? How long should a SIP be and on what dates?

Panel Members:

Swarup Mohanty, CEO, Mirae Asset Mutual Fund

Prableen Bajpai, Founder, Finfix Research and Analytics

Neelabh Sanyal, Co-Founder, Kuvera

Rushabh Desai - Mutual Fund Distributor

Cardano has become the world’s third-biggest cryptocurrency after bitcoin and ether. Mint asks experts what has fueled this surge and how far the rally can sustain. The panel includes Naimish Sanghvi, Founder, Coin Crunch India; Nirmal Ranga, Vice-President-Trading, ZebPay; Hitesh Malviya, founder, itsblockchain.com; Sidharth Sogani, Founder & CEO, CREBACO Global. The moderator is Abhinav Kaul, assistant editor, Mint.

Mint asks a panel of experts about a key question in personal finance - how to save and invest to attain a Rs 1 crore corpus. Panelists include Aashish Somaiyya, CEO, White Oak Capital, Deepali Sen, founder Srujan Financial Advisors, Anant Ladha, founder, Invest Aaj for Kal and Sandeep Jethwani, founder, dezerv. with Neil Borate, Senior Assistant Editor, Mint, moderating.