A financial plan is a road-map to achieve your life’s financial goals. These goals can be planned ones like – your retirement goal, Kid’s education goal, vacation planning, purchase of house etc., All of us do try to save and invest in one way or the other for these planned goals. But, Life is full of If’s and But’s. Not […]
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My New Mutual Fund Portfolio | My Equity MF Investments
The corona-virus pandemic has thrown most of the global economies into a tailspin and shaken financial markets and investors profoundly. We are witnessing – salary cuts, lay-offs, huge drop in business revenues and professional incomes. These challenging times, reiterate the importance of ‘core financial planning principles‘ – Asset allocation, diversification, re-balancing, living within means, lower exposure to debt (loans/mortgages) etc., This […]
Latest BDA Plots E-auction 2020-21 | Details & Online Procedure
The Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) has re-commenced auctioning its corner sites in various layouts. This comes two months after the Karnataka State Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa announced that around 12,000 BDA sites will be auctioned in a phased manner. Since 2011-12, the BDA has been aggressively offering the plots for sale through e-auction. These are […]
New Income Tax Slab Rates Vs Old Tax Regime | Which one is better?
Budget 2020 has sparked a new debate on which income tax slab rates are beneficial for tax assessees (New Tax Regime Vs old one). A new income tax regime has been proposed in Budget 2020. A taxpayer can opt for it by forgoing 70 income tax exemptions. Offering an optional lower rate of income tax […]
Aftermath of ‘Karvy Stock Broking mess’, are your Mutual Fund investments safe?
We are all aware of the fact that ‘mutual funds are subject to various market risks‘. This is because there is no way to predict what will happen in the future (or) whether a given asset will increase or decrease in value. Because the market cannot be accurately predicted or completely controlled, no investment is 100% risk-free. As a mutual […]
Top 15 Best Mutual Funds to invest in 2020 & beyond | Top Performing Equity Funds
In India mutual fund industry’s asset under management (AUM) has been growing at a rapid pace. The total AUM has reached around Rs 25.50 lakh crore in August 2019. The asset under management of Debt, Equity and Hybrid schemes at the end of August 2019 stood at Rs 13.22 lakh crore, Rs 7.16 lakh crore […]