The way investors fall over each other to lap up NFOs (New Fund Offers) of mutual funds, it is very obvious that the meaning of NAV of mutual funds remains misunderstood. How is the net asset value NAV of a mutual fund unit calculated is very important to know so that you can understand the dynamicsRead More
Managing Family Finances
Personal finance at home – budgeting, spending, analyzing, saving, investing – could be a boring topic. But then managing family finances or family financial management is important. Many families simply do not manage it so their financial planning is always in trouble. For families that do, it’s either the husband or the wife who take itRead More
Top online money management tools list – Valueresearchonline
Money management is viewed by many as a very boring task. In many cases it’s too time consuming to track all your investments over the last few years as you have to do a lot of things manually month on month. You can make it easy by using money management tools. In situations such asRead More
Importance of Health Insurance
The need for importance of Health Insurance or having a health policy is a very important one and yours truly got a dose of it himself when he was whisked into a hospital for a week with acute viral fever. Being loaded with adequate health cover (also called mediclaim in India), I was safe withRead More
65 Personal Finance Tips
While we are a free country and very democratic in almost every walk of life, how many of us can say with confidence that we have attained financial freedom as well ? Money helps us sustain our daily living yet most of us struggle with basic personal finance decisions and healthy financial planning. So, fewRead More
Indian stock markets in the doldrums : What should you do now ?
Tomorrow’s headlines in leading dailies will probably read – stock market crash india dashes middle class dreams of investors ! Yes, the Indian stock market crash of 2011 is leaving many investors jaded and shaken up. In these tough times, many investors are asking what was the cause, what does it mean to their financial planning,Read More