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Whole Life plan provides life insurance cover for the entire life of a person or 100 years, which is less. Unlike fixed term plans or endowment policies, whole life insurance policies provide financial security throughout...

In today’s times of fast lifestyles and rising inflation, it has become necessary to save money every month and also deposit it in a safe place. This ‘safe place’ is the savings bank account – it helps you deposit your spare cash and also earn interest on it...

One of the biggest benefits of SEBI’s Mutual Fund Scheme re-classification initiative is that, investors now have a clearer idea about the market cap composition and risk characteristics of a mutual fund scheme. Large and midcap...

Equity Savings Funds are a relatively new mutual fund product category. These are equity oriented hybrid funds similar to balanced funds, but the risk profile of these funds are more moderate (lower risk) compared to balanced funds. Balanced Funds...

Investors, who have trading accounts with equity broking firms, receive text message or emails from their brokers every day, recommending which stocks to buy or sell. When they tune into a business news channel...

Reliance Tax Saver Fund, which was one of the best performance ELSS a couple of years back, has slipped a bit in rankings based on short term performance, but in our view it still remains a good ELSS mutual fund for investors with long...

Mutual funds are wonderful investment options for meeting a variety of financial goals. However, a common problem which retail investors often face is the problem of too many choices. One of main...

In our previous article, Elections results and equity market, we had discussed how equity markets performed after each election and during the terms of the respective governments. We had seen that the impact...

Depending only on your employer’s Group Policy: You should check what kind of benefits your employer’s group health insurance policy offers. Check what is the total amount and nature of illnesses that your company’s...

It is an approach to investing in which the investor takes position about the market in a direction opposite to the prevailing market trend. So, if the market is moving upward, the contrarian investor would take the...