Savings and investment can be boosted up easily either by increasing your income or cutting down on expenses. Whether you are on the brim of retirement or a fresher who has just started with his work tenure with a big MNC, savings remains to be the ultimate goal during all stages of our life. Contrary to popular belief, even 100 INR saved today can go a long way in adding to your corpus if...
Usually, we invest in instruments that offer high returns. But as there is a well-known phrase that “Do not put all your eggs in one basket”, one should be cautious in making an investment decision. When you invest by just looking at high returns, you expose yourself to high risk as well as high return comes attached with high risk. This is where diversification of a portfolio helps....
INSURANCE! What comes to your mind when you think about insurance? Is it returns and investment? Well all these things are a part of the policy, but what is the actual meaning of ‘insurance’? Insurance covers ‘risk’. We can’t predict the future, so the possibility of an uncertainty happening with our life remains. Insurance was introduced to cover the risk...
Seeking out the assistance of financial advisors for investment advice seems like the easy way out while dealing with financial troubles. However, the real problem starts while gauging whether your advisor is actually taking care of your corpus. You might face several questions while dealing with the same. Are your friends and relatives doing better than you? Has your portfolio showcased much...
When it comes to assessing our financial strength and weakness, many of us just remain clueless. It is partially because we are not aware of the importance of such an evaluation. Another reason for such ignorance is probably that we do not know where to begin with. Before everything else, we should know the consequences of not doing an analysis of our financial strength and weaknesses....
Financial planning paves the way to achieve financial independence and plan a smooth retired life while one is still earning. Early planning provides a long horizon to multiply the investment. People of different age groups have different priorities, hence, each of them needs to plan accordingly to achieve their financial goal. Financial planning can have varied horizons and purposes for...
What is wealth management? Wealth management has a wider scope and has long term wealth creation as its primary motive. As such, wealth management can be described as a wealth creation process where a team of professionals analyze the financial needs of the client and suggest the appropriate financial products. Such a process would include wealth protection (risk management), accumulation...
Financial planning is considered to be essential for those people having contract or commission jobs or their income being seasonal or unpredictable. Proper planning can help to ensure that the ends are met adequately throughout the year. At the same time, it also helps to reduce stress, especially during times, when there is consistent low cash flow. Financial planning – An...
Marriage may be your bliss from heaven, but financial planning is what you have to do next. Such financial planning may now involve so many things like setting up of financial goals, debt restructuring, budgeting, tax planning, etc. This article will deal with financial planning for newlyweds. Identification of financial goals and objectives Most Important thing would be to...
No one is immune to making mistakes as we are human after all. But we should learn from our mistakes as well as other people’s mistakes. If you want to learn faster, learn from other’s mistakes specifically in personal finance as making mistakes in personal finance can be very costly. The purpose of this article is to learn from the common mistakes made by financially unorganized and...