Category Archives: Saving for children

6 Financial Reasons why you are not ready for a child

While deciding the right time to have children, a lot of aspects come into picture. Age, finances, relationship with your spouse, career objectives, health and family size are all important considerations. These factors are further linked with several probabilities, which make the difficult decision even more complicated. In terms of emotional, relationship and financial readiness,… Read More »

Money mistakes that might haunt you in the future!

Making mistakes with our money is something we all are wary of but can never really be sure of avoiding. Even those of our friends who seem to have the smarts for handling their money, sometimes falter at problems that credit and financial planning bring along. Never was money as simple as saving in a… Read More »

Term Insurance – A necessity!

Understanding Term Insurance: Term Insurance is a plain life insurance plan. It is the simplest and most fundamental death benefit plan without any money back or maturity benefits. The Term insurance product is designed for a specified term (between 5-30 years) and provides benefit to the beneficiary if the policyholder dies during the covered term.… Read More »

Evaluating personal loan against fixed deposits!

Fixed deposits in banks are one of the most preferred investments by risk averse Indians who also look forward to earn a higher interest rate as compared to the normal savings account in the bank. Now these fixed deposits have another wonderful benefit to offer the customers and that is the provision to take a… Read More »

Plan now for your kids’ education!

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”. This quote is often repeated to encourage people to opt for education. It has never been truer than today. Education indeed, has become expensive. The rising cost of education Consider this; engineering education used to cost about Rs. 5,000 to 25,000 per year 10 years back. Today… Read More »

The home maker and finances!

Once while chatting up with a friend over tea and hot pakoras, the talk moved towards how expenses have shot up and how difficult it was getting to manage our family budgets. My friend just shrugged and said, “Well, those are concerns of my wife. After all, she is the finance minister of the house”.