For most of us our liaison with equity markets begins with an online share trading account. Even as you decide whether you want to buy and sell equities for the short term or long term, there is a bigger fundamental question pertaining to your approa

Retirement planning is undoubtedly a key aspect of your long term financial plan. But you have a choice of different types of mutual funds. You have equity funds, debt funds and balanced funds; not to mention the sub-categories in each of them. How d

When the Sensex touched the 40,000 mark for the third time during the year, the big question was what next? On the last two occasions, the markets had dipped sharply after touching that level. However, this time there are a number of factors that hav

In his interim Budget speech on Friday, February 1, 2019, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced a slew of measures to boost the economy and to provide tax reliefs to the common man. This is the last Interim Budget of the Narendra Modi-led NDA gover

When Piyush Goyal stood up to present the Interim Budget 2019, few would have anticipated the big shift from convention. It became evident that the Interim Budget was not going to be a vote-on-account. Above all, Goyal also set the stage for ring-fe

Today being the last day 2018, people are busy making new year plans, organizing parties and deciding new year resolutions. Have you thought of making investment resolutions for 2019 yet? Do you know that you can invest your savings now to earn multi

Your equity portfolio is typically vulnerable to big events, both domestic and global. When we talk of 2019, the first thing that comes to mind is the General elections. While that is surely one major consideration, it has been witnessed that markets

Two-thousand-eighteen was a tumultuous year for the stock markets. While the markets did not lose value overall, there was a huge disparity in the performance of stocks within the indices. While companies with a solid consumption story did extremely

Blue-chip stocks refer to pedigree stocks which comprise a majority of the benchmark Nifty or Sensex indices in India. These stocks represent a bulk of the market capitalization and are also a proxy for the growth of the industry in particular and th

The year 2018 has been full of volatility and surprises for Indian investors. The NSE benchmark Nifty had opened at 10,531.70 on January 01, 2018, and registered a high of 11,760.20 on August 28, 2018, before losing out all of its gains to trade at 1

Year 2018 has been a volatile affair in more ways than one. Apart from the imposition of the tax on long-term capital gains (LTCG) and dividend distribution tax (DDT) on equity funds, the year also saw nerve-wracking volatility in macros. The Indian

Investments in the Indian mutual fund sector have become increasingly popular. However, investments these days entail so many terms that a new investor would be left perplexed. An example of one such mix-up is the confusion between ELSS and SIP. L