We, the investors, have a very powerful tool called the ombudsman, at our disposal to raise complaints against services offered to us to make sure any wrongdoing is investigated and possibly corrected. It’s called the ombudsman. I am sure each one of us has come across this term sometime or the other. Let’s take aRead More
Kotak Life Insurance Online
Kotak Life Insurance is offering a pure vanilla term life insurance plan called e-Term and e-Preferred term plan. This is among the latest offering of term insurance plans in India which can be bought online. Before Kotak e-Term and e-Preferred term plan was made available, ICICI Prudential life insurance and Aegon Religaire life insurance hadRead More
Union Budget 2010-2011 income tax highlights
Budget 2011 has come and gone. Amidst rising interest rates, spiraling inflation and a basket full of scams, the government was expected to deliver Budget 2011 to make its mark with a bang. Did it ? Depends on who you are talking to. Let’s take a sneak look at what the Finance Minister Pranab MukherjeeRead More
Personal Finance Ratios
Personal finance ratios are as important to an individual investor as are stock ratios to the health of a company. You have stock analysts, market pundits, punters and ordinary investors predicting the path of a stock after analyzing basic stock ratios like EPS and PE; however, none pause to think about the personal finance ratiosRead More
7 Important Life Insurance Mistakes to Avoid
Making mistakes when you buy a financial product is very common for investors. So, in this article we’ll be discussing life insurance mistakes to avoid when buying a policy. It’s gruesome when the product is life insurance. Imagine you think you are efficiently insured when actually you are not and your family ends up withRead More
How is Income from House Property Calculated
The Income Tax Act of India has five heads of income, of which “Income from House Property” is one of them. This article teaches- how to find the income from the home you own or how is income from house property calculated In order to calculate the income from house property, one needs to knowRead More