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You have been investing for a while in large cap funds and have been getting steady returns. While the steady returns keeps your investment from becoming stagnant, your portfolio is still lacking that aggressive edge where you can give it a push and...

Investors are always plagued by various investing options in Mutual Funds. Everyone seems to have an opinion about these and they all make it sounds either extremely lucrative or the most risky investment options. In a scenario...

The perpetual question that investors are faced with is: Debt or Equities. As an investor should one opt for the volatility and to get high returns of equities? Or one should seek safety in debts while gathering moderate returns? While it is agreed...

Advisors and experts often mention that equity mutual funds are idle for investments as they provide long term capital gains and some schemes especially the ones under ELSS category qualify for tax rebate under Section 80C. The dividends received...

Yesterday we discussed the first 6 rules in the Part 1 of the article 12 Rules for Investing Successfully. Here is the 2nd part. In ‘Rules of Investment Success-I’ you read about all the steps that you must take as an investor...

Warren Buffet called investments to be a second source of income. Times may have changed and we may like to call ourselves modern but we still earn the traditional way i.e. from one pay cheque to another. We usually...

We all look forward to our retirement days when we will have time on our hands and lazy days stretching ahead. We will finally live life on our own terms without the iron hand of a schedule to intimidate us and to fasten...

Now it is time to live life king size with no more a list of goals to fulfill. Your life is going to be more than just a list of goals that has to be ticked off. No more living from one goal to another. You can pursue all hobbies that...

Fifties is an interesting decade as you slow down and prepare for a life of retirement. This decade is the most fulfilling decade as you have amassed respectability in your profession. In your personal life your kids...

You may have been repeatedly told that not having a financial plan is a bad plan. If you do not have a concrete plan lined up by your 40s then you may be preparing for a catastrophe. Now you are in your forties and you...