Investing should help the investor make money, not his broker.
Mental accounting it "the inclination to categorise and treat money differently depending on where it comes from, where it is kept and how it is spent.
The next time you shop using a credit card, be sure that you are not spending more than what you would have spent, if you were paying cash.
IRDA seems to be sleeping. It is bothered about the well-being of the insurance companies and not about the man on the street who is buying costly Ulips.
To cover their losses FIIs may have to sell their investments in emerging markets like India, where there investments have been generating return.
In its zeal to get to the viewer before anyone else does, the business media ends up oversimplifying things.
Retail investors like to invest in initial public offerings (IPOs) only to sell out on the day the stock is listed. Flipping IPOs, as this is known as, can be very risky.
Analysts usually have a buy recommendation on most stocks. Why?
Floating rate home loans will soon be reset, impacting interest rates. In the current situation interest rates might go up, causing more defaults and more volatility in stock markets.
Indians do not buy insurance for the sake of insurance
So as we can see, the appreciation of the yen to 112 yens to a dollar, has led to the profit of the carry trade investor coming down drastically to 1.78 per cent.
Are mutual funds really investment experts?
Yes, the salaries of two individuals having the same CTC, can vary. It all depends on the way the salaries are structured. Read on...
What insurance companies do to motivate their sales force.
Weird as it may sound, as far home loans in India are concerned, floating can be fixed and fixed can be floating.
The law of demand clearly states that at higher prices demand is less and vice versa. The retail investor investing in the stock market doesn't quite follow that logic.
'Sensex sees third biggest fall' ran most newspaper headlines on Thursday. In giving this headline, most newspaper editors forgot their fifth standard mathematics.
Actually there is no major reason for you to worry.
Some MF distributors offer 'cash back' to investors who invest through them to sweeten the deal. This is a throwback from the days when LIC agents gave cash back to individuals who bought policies through them.
Many investors get out of their existing MF scheme to invest in new MF schemes as they are told they will get more units. But beware, this may not be good for you.
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