Mutual Fund houses are redirecting their funds towards investments in short term plans while keeping their focus mainly on the liquid assets. The reasons as to why short term funds are in the lime light is because of the rate hikes proposed by RBI and also because of the uncertainty in the long run due… Read More »
While investors are worrying about the rate at which mutual fund schemes are disappearing from the surface of the market, you can be assured that there is nothing to fear as mutual fund houses are just merging schemes with each other, that too at much higher rates than what was observed earlier. While nothing may… Read More »
Apart from investing in funds that can guarantee your returns which in turn might help in funding your financial requirements apart from wealth creation, it is important that you buy the appropriate insurance policies that can save you from any rainy day. After all it is your hard work and investment that will help in… Read More »
Businessmen, who are new to the world of entrepreneurship, are advised by every experienced person to maintain a distance from credit cards in order to fund their business. This is because as these people struggle to gain a strong foothold in their business, and when money is not flowing in as smoothly as it should,… Read More »
Most investors fear that they might lose out on their investments due to the fluctuations in the equities market. Contrary to popular belief, volatile behavior is not restricted to the performance of stock markets. Similar attributes can also be observed in the debt market, and the current scenario is witness to the fact that any… Read More »
Expense ratio, or the expense a mutual fund house incurs to operate a fund, is a charge all investors must bear. Although this may not seem like a huge liability to you, it is these charges on which mutual fund houses heavily bank their profits, irrespective of the profitability of their equity schemes. The expense… Read More »
With a fear of a prospective fall in the market, fund managers have decided to revise their investment strategies in the field of equity schemes. They are increasingly hiking their cash holdings in products, while at the same time, trimming their exposures in Futures and Options (F&O) that were initially used as hedges to protect… Read More »
Investors in fixed income instruments are constantly in the lookout for products or tools that offer higher rates of interest than others. As interest rates continue to spiral their way upwards, debt instruments like company deposits and bonds have proved that they are quite the catch in terms of returns and diversity. Company fixed deposits,… Read More »
With panic rising amongst investors in the country, people who have invested in fixed deposits are afraid of a further slash in interest rates and are hence rushing to renew their fixed deposits at the existing rates of interest. Banks are further trying to focus on their Current and Savings Account also known as the… Read More »
Never really thought about this option? Well it is the fact. If your Public Provident Fund (PPF) has completed 1 whole financial year, then most probably you will be entitled to get a loan against it. But first, there are certain conditions that you need to comply to. Firstly, your account needs to have completed… Read More »