The BJP and the NDA not only bettered the number of seats in the Lok Sabha but also improved their vote share percentage over 2014. The BJP on its own improved its vote share from 31 to nearly 37 while the NDA vote share was closer to the 46 mark.

When it comes to retirement, making the necessary money available is just one side of the story. The more challenging part is planning your post retirement life. You may plan to retire at 55 or at 60, but you still need to ensure that these years are

A goal is a target you work towards and your financial planning begins with your medium term and long term goals. Once the goals are set, the next step is to work backward, impute the uncertainty, factor the risk and include the impact of inflation.

The Bank Nifty is also a free float market cap weighted index with focus purely on the banking stocks. The Bank Nifty is already one of the most actively traded index future and option in the F&O market. It has assumed significance due to its hig

Back in the late 1980s high profile women in financial markets were few and far between. There was Tarjani Vakil at Exim Bank or Lalita Gupte at ICICI. But things changed post liberalization in the early 1990s. With better regulation of financial mar

BSE captures the gainers and the losers on a real time basis. Gaines and losers are always with reference to the closing price on the previous trading day. The BSE gainers are indexed descending from big gainers to small gainers. In terms of BSE lose

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) captures the top gainers and losers under various categories on a real time basis. The gainers and losers are with reference to the previous close price and are expressed in absolute terms and in percentage terms. Th

Creating wealth over the long run eventually boils down to managing your money better. You quite often find that people with the same level of income end up with vastly different amount of wealth just because one plans his savings and investments bet

Millennials are the next generation of the baby boomers. It is the young crowd that is tech savvy, has a good education and has joined the productive mainstream. We can argue that investing essentials remain the same for everyone, but here is the cro

Saving a portion of your salary and allocating the funds to a systematic investment plan (SIP) is quite straight forward. The real challenge arises when you don’t have the luxury of receiving an SMS on the last day of every month that your salary h

The GDP growth for the June quarter has fallen to a 7 year low of 5. That is just one of the indicators. PMI manufacturing and PMI services are showing loss of momentum. The latest core sector growth is tepid at 2.1. But the biggest signs of a slow

The demat account holds your shares and other securities in custody in electronic format. Opening and operating a demat account is a major financial decision because it is going to hold all your investments in electronic form. Even before you open an