High savings, aggressive asset allocation and a frugal lifestyle can help you hang up your boots a decade early.
People who are close to retirement and don't intend to go back to full-time work again should deploy a part of their VRS money in equities so that it keeps growing at a faster rate.
'If we go in the same direction as them, we cannot expect a different result from them.' 'Our fall is going to be very swift.' 'Within a decade, we can expect the situation to change for the worse.'
It's best to start your tax planning in the beginning of the year to help you systematically grow your savings coupled with the added benefit of tax saving realised at the end of the financial year.
Conservative investors and those in the lower tax bracket should opt for these, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh
With this, total inflows have reached Rs 3.98 lakh crore in the first 11 months of the current fiscal (2016-17). In comparison, Rs 2.07 lakh crore was invested in various mutual fund products during April-February period of 2015-16.
Investors have pumped in nearly Rs 54,000 crore into various mutual fund schemes in January, with liquid, income and equity funds attracting the most of the inflows.
The good news is investors can make 5 to 6 switches during a year among funds depending on the insurance companies without incurring any costs.
If you plan to withdraw money from your corpus regularly to meet expenses, have a portfolio of stable instruments.
All you need is a computer, net connection and a subscription to a 3-in-1 online investing account
Banks play 'mind games' to woo customers. Big data and 'games' are now the tools of the trade.
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Returns on godl have depleted in past few years,
Now that the National Pension Scheme offers more choices than the Employees Provident Fund, is more transparent and also allows to choose the level of allocation to equities as investors like, should one switch to the NPS?
Shikha Verma explains how child insurance plans can help you achieve your child's financial dreams.
Ajit Balakrishnan on the surprising drivers of mathematical innovation.
Thanks to Budget 2018, seniors can invest more and also save more.
Had you invested Rs 5,000 every month in SBI Magnum Multicap Fund through systematic investment plan (SIP) for the last 5 years, the value of your investment would be over Rs 5.2 lakh as on August 22, 2016
The hard truth is that unless you start investing for your children in advance, in appropriate investment avenues, you are risking their future aspirations.
Alvarez & Marsal will develop a detailed restructuring plan for the group to demonstrate to shareholders and lenders that it was self-sufficient in repaying its liabilities. So far, the IL&FS management had been working on its revival plan.
Ashish Chauhan is generous in his praise for his former bosses and doesn't flinch in pointing out the reasons why the BSE lost out in the initial years of the NSE.
You need careful planning to accumulate a corpus for your children's dreams and goals
'We have great demographics, and are the fastest growing large economy. And we save.' 'All of which is great for financial services,' Aditya Birla Capital CEO Ajay Srinivasan tells Niraj Bhatt.
The raising of the entry age in NPS has opened up an attractive new investment avenue for senior citizens, says Arnav Pandya.
Depending on your liquidity requirement, invest in the right debt instruments.
Rather than worry about what picture of India is being painted in the foreign media, the focus must be on marshalling all our energies to provide relief and solace to our deeply wounded and dispirited citizens, says former foreign secretary Shyam Saran.
The new hires will work in cutting-edge domains of artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, natural language processing, camera technology and 5G networks.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
When the bull run begins its march again, it will really be different!
The previous government set up a cabinet task force to clear the backlog of projects but failed to make much of an impact.
The vaccination rate needs to go up by three to four times, assert Ajay Shah and Amrita Agarwal.
Before you take the leap, get your financial house in order
In its new avatar as the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), it will directly be responsible for 'the welfare of traders and their employees'.
Look at gold bonds or gold monetisation scheme instead of buying physical gold
Modi govt must implement few policy measures which it announced in Budget 2015.
The dinner was followed by a meeting in which nearly two dozen allies facilitated Prime Minister Modi.
The need of the hour is to strike a balance between the capability of the conventional and the prospect of the renewable to give a realistic shape to the Prime Minister's vision, says Rajiv Mishra.
A market where prices are not likely to go up is excellent for the long-term investor.
Reduce frill expenses, monetise your assets and invest in professional development to negotiate the choppy phase.
India should plan its strategies on the assumption that the rightward swing will stay and the West will retreat into an economic fortress, says Nitin Desai.
