GoalTeller

April 06, 2025

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall and they all …….

The worst days of US markets

• Mayhem all around – Trump imposes tariffs, China retaliates, Germany exploring ways to pull its gold out from the US back into Germany, Oil crashes to 3-year lows.

• Gift Nifty is down by > 3% indicating continued carnage tomorrow.

• These are tough times and investors should continue to stick to their long-term plan – next week could offer good opportunities for switching into equities from a medium – long-term view.

• On the trade side, India seems well placed as of now to gain from these tariff wars, certain sections needless to say will be impacted – however all in all the medium – long term view on Indian equities continues to be positive (and for all you know it could be actually a net gainer here). Hence best to stick to investing with a long-term view – Whole of last year we continued to scream that investors should rebalance their portfolios, reduce mid and small caps, and NOT allocate money for short-term goals to equities.

• Our users continue to outperform significantly due to our highest fund exposures being in defensive funds – we are gradually moving some of this into more aggressive bets as we feel we will soon be at a time when we should start getting greedy – However in the short term it is impossible for anyone to speculate correctly how this new world order is going to shape up.