25
May
Summer vacation is ending for my kids and most of their friends are back from summer camps and family trips abroad or in India. Most of them went to exotic vacation spots...
Financial Planning
16
May
Recently I came across the article in one of the newspapers titled ICICI Prudential Multicap Fund: Good returns, well diversified.
This struck me that we have already started recommending...
15
May
Not all financial decisions turn out to be right. We must deal with stock picks that go bad; a bond that is threatening to default; or a deposit in a friendly finance...
15
Mar
Last year, inflows into equity markets continued despite a correction, due to optimistic expectations and sentiment. This tapered off only after January 2016 as one- and two-year returns turned negative. Earlier as...
10
Feb
After demonetisation, the bank accounts of nearly all Indians are bulging with cash. Given the restrictions on withdrawals, a large chunk of this money is going to stay put in bank accounts...
27
Apr
Systematic investment plans (SIPs), or dollar-cost averaging, as they are known globally, are becoming a preferred investment tool in India too. There are now almost 9.5 million SIPs in the mutual fund...
27
Apr
Mumbai-based Shubro Sen has been putting aside Rs 40,000 per month towards his retirement corpus since the past three years. He is 40 years old and wants a corpus of Rs 5.8...
16
Feb
I try to be frugal. But my instincts as a consumer are mistaken. Behavioral economics suggests that I’m often frugal in the wrong way and that you may be, too.
15
Jan
Mutual funds (MFs) are run by fund managers with significant expertise and whose job it is to ensure that the fund beats the benchmark in the long run. Therefore, it might seem...
28
Nov
The most commonly asked question when someone comes to know that I work in the area of investments is: Where should I be investing my money now? From the seekers of 'just...