Here is another stunning infographics from mint.com on 7 steps to pay off your debt. All the 7 rules are time tested and hold so much gravity that you will end up nodding your heads while reading. It starts with the first golden rule of spending less than you bring home and includes others likeRead More
When should you do portfolio rebalancing ?
This is part of a series of articles on investment portfolio rebalancing. This is the first part and talks about when should you do portfolio rebalancing. Most of the investors buy into good products but fail to review the product at the right time. Your chances of getting the right returns from an investment productRead More
Health Insurance Portability [infographic]
Health Insurance Portability was introduced in October 2011 in India. At that time it was much written about as a new and good thing to have happened. From what I read, the move over to new health insurers has not been as smooth as originally envisaged. There were many cases in the media where insurersRead More
Why don’t Indians make a will ?
They say only three things are certain in life – tax, wife and death. While I cannot help you with the last two, I can to a certain extent help only with the first. We will discuss the second some other day, so let’s concentrate on death today. Death is certain for everyone. You andRead More
What is a stock [infographic] ?
I have earlier covered details on what is a stock. If you haven’t read it yet, please do so now. In the meanwhile, I laid my hands of an infographic which explains the basics of what a stock is very beautifully. In it, you will also find a history of the stock market but thatRead More
New Mutual Fund regulations – MFs become expensive !
Under pressure from the impact of falling investments in mutual funds from investors at the back of the 2009 regulation of removing entry loads, the capital market regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) announced some new measures last week. For those who are coming into the game a bit late, the removal ofRead More