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Thirties are a thrilling decade of your life. The life that you were leading in your twenties may have felt clueless. The advent of thirties brings with it a sense of direction. You feel sure about where you stand in life and in which...

Equity markets never move in one direction only. Market advances or declines based on a variety of factors on a day to day basis. Sometimes the movement against the market trend can sustain for days and weeks...

Advertisements and billboards have you convinced that you have entered the most happening period of your life: the 20’s. You start the 20’s with zeal to change your life, figure out the purpose and aim of life, go...

About one year back, I read a funny article in article written by Morgan Housel in the popular US investment journal The Motley Fool. It was about excessive use of certain jargons by investment experts and financial...

Sushant has one term insurance plan of र 50 lacs sum assured. Mukul has two term plans of र 25 lacs each from two different life insurance companies. Which is more advantageous? Sushant pays an annual premium of...

India can take pride that we have always been a country of savers. From a high savings rate of 36% of GDP to a low of 30% of GDP, Indians have always been big savers. Most of our savings are directed towards...

The profit made by a company from its operations is known as the operating profit or in accounting terms, EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Depreciation and Amortization). From EBITDA, the company pays interest to its lenders. Depreciation and amortization, which are non-cash items, are also deducted from...

In our previous article, The best investment choice for our children: Part 1 of 2, we had discussed why you should invest in equities to meet your children’s financial goals. There are plenty of investment products in...

Equity savings funds are hybrid mutual fund schemes which have minimum gross equity exposure 65% and minimum 10% exposure in debt. Equity savings funds can hedge their equity exposure to reduce their net equity risks. Arbitrage is defined as risk free profit, by exploiting pricing mismatches...

Global equity markets turned volatile in 2022, due to high inflation, interest rate hikes by the central banks and the War in Ukraine. Most markets around the world went into the bear territory. The S&P 500 was down nearly 20%, NASDAQ down 33%, Hang Seng (Hong Kong) down 15%, DAX (Germany) down 12% and the Nikkei (Japan)...