When you consider adequacy of insurance, you need to consider various insurance covers, including life cover and medical cover. When you take a medical cover you need to balance between adequacy of cover and the cost of the cover.When Rajiv met his financial advisor for the first time, he started off quite confidently. He had …
Children have special needs due to a variety of reasons. For example, some children may have learning impairment and others may have a psychiatric syndrome. Most of the children with special needs have developmental challenges or profound cognitive impairment which makes it very difficult for the child to mingle with other children of the same …
Over the last three years the average Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) collections per month has almost doubled. During the year 2017-2018, SIP contribution accounted for around Rs 67,000 crore and the total number of active SIPs accounts stood at 2.52 crore. That is a huge number. But what exactly is a SIP? A SIP is …
What exactly is an all weather portfolio? Obviously, it is not a portfolio that will outperform under all conditions. That does not exist in reality. An all weather portfolio which has an element of alpha and risk management built into it. That means in good times the portfolio does not really perform better than an …
More often than not, your stock market advisor goes beyond the traditional role of execution and gives you stock trading and investing ideas in the market. Your broker must be having its own research team and there are a plethora of research reports that are issued by the research. What should be your first reaction …
Investors and analysts often look at value investing in contradistinction to growth investing. Quite often, they converge; which means a growth stock may also be a value stock if appropriately priced. It is common for people to mistake low P/E stocks to be value stocks but that may be a slightly misleading approach to value …
For a long time, the stock markets were considered to be a club for the wealthy and the enterprising. That emanated from the old wisdom that gentlemen preferred bonds. . There are a lot more flexible and even small retail investors feel a lot more comfortable. Understanding how to invest in share markets is all …
If you have an online trading account or even if you do not have an online trading account, you can still have an online portfolio tracker. You just need to feed in your equity portfolio and the portfolio algorithm automatically updates your portfolio prices on a real time basis. Even corporate actions like splits and …
On July 08th 2018, SEBI issued regulations pertaining to Mandatory Dematerialization for transfer of securities. Please note that these regulations only pertain to transfer of securities. The guidelines will be effective from December 05th 2018 post which all requests for transfer of shares will have to be in Demat format only. Currently, you are permitted …
We often use the terms risk and uncertainty interchangeably. Most investors equate risk and uncertainty when it comes to investments. In reality, there is a very significant difference between the two of them. Did you know that when you make an investment decision, there is a risk element and there is an uncertainty element to …
