Understanding Women’s Inheritance Rights in Property
Daughters have equal inheritance rights in property – Once a daughter, Always a daughter. Supreme Court judgment on Vineeta Sharma Vs. Rakesh Sharma Civil appeal no. 32601 of 2018 decided on August 11, 2020 The Honorable Supreme Court of India’s recent landmark judgment has opened…
Gold as an Investment: Should you Buy, Hold, or Sell?
The concept of gold as an investment can be intriguing. When you see a man wearing a Gold face mask costing a whopping Rs.3.5 lakhs, you know you are in India. The Indian obsession for the yellow metal is no secret. Buyers consider gold as…
4 Financial Planning Mistakes you Should Avoid in the post-Covid World
Living in a Covid-induced lockdown world is emerging as a challenge for virtually everyone. Be it a business owner fighting liquidity crunch or a salaried individual worried about job loss or salary cuts, the times are uncertain and challenging. On the other hand, financial plans…
Rules of Inheritance: Know How to Transfer Property in your Name
What is yours today will be someone else’s tomorrow, underlines the core philosophy of the Bhagawad Gita. Religious texts apart, inheritance or passing on of legacy for both tangible and intangible assets is a stark reality. In today’s world where property is a prized asset,…
Investment Tracking: Four Performance Metrics for your Investments
There is a secret sauce to not worrying about how your investment portfolio is doing. That is to have no portfolio in the first place. Other than that, every investor worries about his or her investments, and needs to indulge in some investment tracking. However,…
Stock Market Investment: Top 4 Sectors to Invest in Right Now; Here’s Why
Sectoral investing is a time-tested way to not only diversify your holdings but also take advantage of sector-specific trends to suit your stock market investment objectives. As the overall economy remains subdued under the current slowdown, certain sectors are showing signs that they may be…
Protecting Returns: Do’s and Don’ts of Portfolio Diversification
In the investment world, high returns are almost always accompanied by high risk. So, what if you want to protect your returns but minimise your risks? This question dogs every investor, small or big. Diversification is an investment strategy used to spread the risks across…
How to Build DIY Insurance Corpus
Thirty-year-old Kanika was in search of a cost-effective insurance plan for health and life coverage. She had heard about bite-sized insurance plans that promised such coverage at very affordable “per day” rates. To her surprise, she found just such a plan online that offered Rs…
Investing in fluctuating markets: Buy, hold, or exit?
The first quarter of 2020 witnessed a bloodbath on the bourses. From a high of 41,952 on 14th January, 2020, the stock markets plummeted to a low of 39-month low of 25,981 on 23rd March, 2020. The last time the BSE Sensex had been at…
Top 5 Financial Gifts for your Valentine this Valentine’s Day
Come February and it’s that time of the year again where conversations revolve around the theme of love with an ever- increasing buzz for Valentine’s Day. Irrespective of your age, gender, marital status and between all the exotic flowers, chocolates, dinner or movie dates, a…