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How Dropping Rates Affect Your ‘Current’ Loans

The swoop you feel when you’re kayaking down the waterfall may just be the same swoop the news of rate cuts on your loan gives you. Here’s a look at how different rate cuts affect your loan waterfall and a comparison between lowering your interest rate and your tenure. YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO: Check out… Read More »

How to Start Planning for Buying a House

Why do I need a House?   Independence! What a sweet word. Admit it, you want to shift from your current cramped lifestyle to a spacious pad that at least gives you the choice to start yoga, have courtyard toilets, grow a terrace garden even. Hain na? Renters ahoy! Get your own pad and you can… Read More »

Must Have Saving Schemes for Savers Great and Small

We all have that one friend that is great at planning everyone’s birthday, including their own, and that one other friend who shows up late to every birthday, even their own. We all differ just as much when it comes to our finances. While some manage their budget well and pay off their loans diligently,… 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 »

Would you Take Financial Advice from a Robot?

Artificial Intelligence has been represented in a lot of movies. I Robot, Bicentennial Man, Ex Machina and even Rajnikanth’s Yenthiran have shown how helpful Artificial Intelligence could be. But it may not be as far a possibility as it seems. Your financial planning can be sorted out by a robot as well. Who are Robo… Read More »

India’s Money Management Skills if it Were a Person

If India were a person, its diversity would be confusing indeed. But India has a very specific identity and its habits and behavior can easily be likened to a person. This pertains to its financial behavior as well. India has seen its fair share of ups and downs in the recent past, in terms of… Read More »

The History of Currency

Swati, a journalist, had invited her gang of girls for a lazy Sunday lunch. Post lunch, their chit chatting turned serious when Swati shared an incident of counterfeit currency from her bank ATM.  Swati’s friend from Australia suggested that India should move toward digital currency instead of the paper money. This got them to think… Read More »