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Regular investments in Section 80C instruments earn better returns as well as reduce the pressure on your funds. Instead, most of us end up in a last-minute scramble to invest to save tax in the month of February or even March. "This is why tax-saving products such as equity-linked saving schemes and unit-linked insurance product have the highest sales in the month of March," says Vikas Vasal, executive director, KPMG.
The four-day property exhibition, which concluded on Sunday, saw prospective home buyers returning 'disappointed'as they found the property prices 'unaffordable' and discounts 'meaningless'.The sales were down more than 60 per cent at the 13th Real Estate and Housing Finance exhibition, which was organised by the Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry.
The strategic portfolio should be tinkered with only once in two or three years. Ideally, the trading part should not be more than 5-10 per cent of your total portfolio.
Gold exchange-traded funds are back in the limelight. After a dull three-month period, a sudden slump in the US stock market last week has investors flocking to buy gold. In the past one week alone, gold prices have increased nearly 15 per cent in the international market.
There is no mechanism to ensure that the customer gets his money back and nor are there any guidelines or rules to protect the customer from this problem
Home loan borrowers perpetually worry about the consequences of defaulting. And whether they wish it or not, there could be situations where they are forced to do so. For instance, after the Mumbai bomb blasts on July 11 2006, a large number of affected families found themselves in deep financial trouble leading to difficulties in servicing their home loans
Trading in currency futures will soon become a reality for the retail investor. With the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India issuing trading norms, exchanges are readying themselves to launch this product in the next few weeks.
With banks taking the cue from RBI to hike rates, home buyers will have to take serious measures to keep their finances under control.
A host of them have a tracking error of more than 1 per cent
Families are cutting expenses or reducing their investments, all pointing towards the fact that inflation has hit them.
With the stock markets being on a downturn for most part of the year, many asset management companies (AMCs) are sitting on huge piles of cash or cash equivalents, with some equity-oriented funds holding as much as 40 per cent of their assets in cash, a Crisil report pointed out.
The next time you buy a householder's insurance policy, you could be paying premiums that are 35 to 50 per cent lower. This is the result of the de-tariffing or lifting of price controls on insurance policies from January this year.
When the markets nosedived to 12,961.68 points on July 1, the country's richest man (read Mukesh Ambani) and his family lost more than Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion), all in a single day.
For the already invested, the road ahead looks rather bumpy. However, when markets offer little to cheer about, for ones who have stayed away for so long, it does offer a whole lot opportunities.
With rising interest rates and inflation taking a toll on home loan customers, banks are beginning to encourage them to partly prepay their loans. Many of them are doing so without charging them prepayment penalty.
With high property costs and home loan rates deterring buyers, builders are looking to get into affordable housing in the next few months.
Both private and public sector companies are introducing products for diabetes and hypertension- related diseases for the elderly.
Gold as an asset class has shown its mettle in the last one year. Especially in the past six months when the equity markets have been on a downslide, this yellow metal has continued to move northwards. And the numbers are there for all to see.
IDFC is merging its Portfolio Management Services business with the newly-acquired Standard Chartered Mutual Fund to sell MF products targeting high net worth individuals. The company is also planning products that offer infrastructure as an asset to investors.
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