Debt funds: Know When you Should Invest in Liquid Funds
Liquidity in one’s portfolio is an investment criterion grossly underestimated by the common investor. If your investment portfolio does not have adequate liquidity to manage emergencies, running expenses, and planned contingencies, your financial plans may get thrown off track and you may end up with…
Index Funds: A Low-cost, Low-risk Investment
Equity investments usually entail volatility in price and require analytical effort not only to make a good investment but also to track it thereafter. So much so that equity has become synonymous with high risk and high effort. This need not be the case. Index…
Equity Investing: Using Momentum Indicators to Invest in Stocks
While technical indicators of stock price movements like moving averages and support and resistance levels can help identify trends in the stock markets, frequently this is not enough. These trend indicators do not forewarn investors before a trigger event occurs upon which the investor needs…
Why you’ll Never Go Wrong with Real Estate Investment
During uncertain and turbulent times, the one place that offers comfort and safety is ‘home’. With job losses and economic upheaval, paying rental for homes suddenly became a financial burden. Home loan borrowers on the other hand had an option to avail EMI moratorium making…
Options Trading: Know the Essentials of Call and Put Options
While investors are familiar with stock market instruments like shares and mutual funds, there is another class of investment instruments called Options, which are advanced investment instruments. While options exist for assets in the commodities market as well, we will be restricting ourselves to the…
Your Money: Know how Balanced Mutual Funds Operate
Balanced mutual funds, or balanced funds, usually are the “go to” option for most small investors. Apart from the ease of investing, the commonly held understanding is that they are safe and provide decent returns. However, both these aspects may not be true of all…
Is Gold Better than Bonds for Long-term Investment?
Gold for most Indians is not just an investment instrument but more of an emotional investment. Higher liquidity and sentimental attachment towards the precious metal make it part of just about everyone’s portfolio. Add to it the current uncertainties of the Covid pandemic and economic…
Your Money: A Few Technical Indicators that can Help Identify Market Trends
Stock markets are known to be brutal to investors who invest unscientifically or based on hearsay. While no one can predict stock price movements with certainty, it helps to take an informed decision before investing. Technical analysis of stock prices enables investors to do just…
Fixed Income: Key Things to Know Before you Invest in Bonds
Conservative investors in India flock to fixed deposits when in doubt. However, fixed deposits have lost their shine of late. Interest rates have been dipping and risk-averse investors seem to be left with no options. Bonds are a good alternative in such cases, but one…
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…