Category Archives: Avoiding debt

Understanding your loan parameters!

EMI Calculation You need to know the loan amount, processing fee and the interest rate of your car loan, home loan or personal loan. If you plan to prepay your loan, then figure out the exact or approximate amount you intend to prepay and the periodicity of such payments depending on your loan agreement. Use… Read More »

How to close a credit card!

Satish Kumar, an animation professional from Mumbai has multiple credit cards that he hardly uses. Chased by credit card sales agents with lucrative offers such as no annual fee Satish ended up owning more than four credit cards, but he uses only one out of them. To his utter surprise Satish got a bill from… 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 »

Financial blunders to avoid in a marriage!

Marriage changes an individual’s life in many ways, bringing a lot of joy, additional responsibilities and worries in small measures as we try to adjust to the new person in our lives. After marriage, both of you might be working or either one of you. This will determine your income source and as for expenses,… Read More »

Loan against fixed deposits – Is it worth it?

When emergency arises, you start looking for sources where you can arrange money from. You forage for assets that you can offer to get loan from the bank or else start looking for personal loan providers. Have you ever thought that the fixed deposits that you made years ago could come to your rescue? You… 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 »