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…
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…
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…
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…
What is Opportunity Cost and How it Can Help you Take Better Investment Decisions
Investing is all about parking money in a financial product or economic vehicle in the hope of making more money than what was invested. Investors usually factor in many criteria—like returns or holding period or riskiness—to make that decision. What if there were some hidden…