What is your Liability in a Credit Card or Online Banking Fraud?
As online banking, electronic transactions and debit or credit cards find greater acceptance, the room for electronic banking frauds also […]
Opinion
Equities, Opinion, Trading
How Traders and Investors have different expectations and how it affects markets?
Karthik, a good friend, forwarded an article from ColloborativeFund.com titled “The Reasonable Formation of Unreasonable Things”. The article talks about
Financial Planning, Opinion
Interest rate for PPF and other Small Savings Schemes cut by 0.1%. What should you do?
Last week, the interest rate for PPF, Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme, Senior Citizen Savings Scheme, NSC and other small savings schemes
Mutual funds
Why I prefer Mutual Funds over other investments?
With mutual funds, you can take exposure to equity markets (both domestic and foreign), debt investments, gold and now even
Financial Planning
What are Step-Up Home Loan Products?
There is no standard nomenclature. The nomenclature may differ across banks. I call these step-up home loans because EMI increases
Insurance, Opinion
Claim Settlement Data of Life Insurance Companies: Hides more than it Reveals
One of the first questions that many have on their minds while short-listing a life insurance policy is whether insurance
Financial Planning, Insurance, Opinion
Review: LIC Jeevan Umang (Plan 845)
LIC Jeevan Umang is a non-linked participating whole life traditional life insurance plan. The meaning of whole life is almost
Financial Planning, Opinion
How much do I need to Invest per month to accumulate Rs 1 crore?
Met a cousin at a wedding in the family a couple of months back. He is a bright young boy,
Insurance
Benefits from LIC New Bima Bachat Plan are taxable
This has nothing to do with LIC. It has to do with the fact that LIC New Bima Bachat is
Insurance
Non-Participating Traditional Life Insurance Plans: Why this fixation with Sum Assured?
With non-participating traditional life insurance plans, returns are known upfront. Unlike participating plans such as LIC New Jeevan Anand, the