Apart from sustaining your portfolio when the domestic market is faring well, global diversification also safeguards it against currency risk.
Use fixed maturity plans to tide interest rate volatility if you're okay with lock-in because longer duration. FMPs can give up to annualised 7.7 per cent returns.
With home loan rates headed north, experts advise how borrowers should cope with their rising liabilities.
Under the EB-5 visa programme you can become a US citizen provided you invest $500,000 in an approved project and create targeted employment. But only 700 Indians can do so each year.
While seniors seeking a regular income should switch to debt funds from balanced funds, younger investors should invest in balanced funds after understanding their risks.
Investors across age groups and risk appetite can invest in these schemes.
If the spouse is the guarantor of husband's business loans, banks can hold her liable for default. Here are ways to ring-fence her assets.
Evaluate recurring investment products and do the numbers before making any investments.
Raising equity exposure to 50 per cent in the National Pension Scheme will benefit young investors, provided they can stomach higher volatility.
Before you buy a cashless benefit plan at lower premiums, check if you can make full use of it. Most don't even exhaust the entire benefit.
While there's tax arbitrage advantage in ULIPs now, experts say investors should prefer mutual funds for long-term savings.
Limit your investment in cryptocurrencies and make sure you have current holdings in your own custody until regulatory cloud blows over, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Now you can check your Aadhaar authentication history online to track if anyone misused your unique identity.
Thanks to Budget 2018, seniors can invest more and also save more.
With the introduction of 10 per cent tax both on long-term capital gains and on dividend, choose funds based on investment horizon and risk appetite, not on tax advantage, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Did you know that your home insurance covers valuables in bank locker?
Install a security software that has an app advisor function, advises Tinesh Bhasin.
If you plan to withdraw money from your corpus regularly to meet expenses, have a portfolio of stable instruments.
Most borrowers of loans against property pin hopes on future cash flows from their business, but in case of failure to repay the loan, the lender can repossess the property and sell it.
Here's what borrowers must pay attention to before going for such medical loans.
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