Category Archives: Investments

Why You Don’t Need to Panic over the China Crisis

Markets tumbling. Economies stumbling. Governments bumbling. This is the stuff doomsday scenarios are made of. Not quite the catastrophic global devastation depicted in the Jake Gyllenhaal-starrer ‘The Day After Tomorrow’. Or the Bruce Willis-starrer ‘Armageddon’. But still, cataclysmic all the same. For starters, China, the workshop of the world, is having a severe bout of the… Read More »

What to Look For when Buying a Second-hand Property

With property prices skyrocketing, the common man today is finding it really difficult to own even a 1 BHK property. This is where homebuyers can seek other alternatives. A property seeker is always hesitant when it comes to buying second hand homes. While the choice between a new property and an old one is mostly… Read More »

Does Your Portfolio Have a Silver Lining?

  All that glitters is not gold. Or silver. Whether considered auspicious or valuable, silver tends to form a part of many an investment portfolio across India. After USA, China and Japan, India is the largest consumer of silver in the world. Consumption in India occurs for industrial and investment purposes. It is considered the… Read More »

How Indians Invest in Gold

  For anyone in India, the single most important financial activity is making investments to safeguard the future. Traditionally, investing in fixed deposits has been a popular way of creating investments purely because they offer a safe environment for investments and steady growth. Other trends have seen investments in life insurance and mutual funds also… Read More »

Nifty Tax Savings from Investing in Property

If you’ve been planning a vacation, you’ve been looking at a lot of different travel packages. And every different type of package give you different amounts of add ons. Similarly, investing in property gives you different tax add ons based on your situation. Here’s Anuj, just another Indian who thinks real estate is one of… Read More »

5 Avant-Garde Investment Options You May Just Need

A surprise evening with puppies or a hidden gift in a cake are the kind of unconventional gift ideas people are turning to these days. It’s all about being different and making new trends. Even investments have new trends that you most probably haven’t considered yet. Here are 5 unconventional investment ideas that may be… Read More »

Investing in Equities: Risk or Reward?

  Broccoli soup or Grilled Chicken? Salad or Burgers? You probably did not pick the Broccoli soup but we all know that it’s healthy. When it comes to investments, people have their own preferences with gold, land and FDs, but not many pick equities. Equities are considered risky and some even consider them akin to… Read More »

6 Potholes in a Hyper-Aggressive Investment Portfolio Expressway

  Super bikes are super popular with the youth today. Unfortunately, considering our crater-ridden roads, it would take a really skilled rider to get through them. They have to make sure that their bike does not fall apart bit by bit at a high speed. Similarly, many youngsters today follow an aggressive investment strategy. They… Read More »