Nishant Batra, Research Head In this article, I will write about index funds and ETFs in easy to understand language and various other things one need to know about index funds and ETFs. To start with, both these instruments comes under mutual fund umbrella. Index...
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Fixed Income Investment Strategies
It’s a misconception that FD, RBI Bond, PPF etc have no risk. The reason we don’t see the risk in them is because for us, risk ONLY means loss of capital. This article intends to educate you on the risks in fixed income investing & the right product mix to invest...
All You Want to Know About the National Pension Scheme (Nps)
Nishant Batra, Research Head In this Article, I will be writing about NPS, it will be a long article, covering a lot of aspects. Government employees with joining date prior to 01st January’2004 are lucky enough that they will get pension and increments on pension as...
All You Need to Know About Floating Rate Funds
Floating Rate Funds Liquid funds are currently generating around 3.3% annualized return. Interest rates probably MIGHT have bottomed out & may start going up in another 6 months from today (negative for Fixed Income, we will discuss this ahead). Where should you...
Perpetual Bonds Can Be Injurious to Your Financial Wellbeing.
Nishant Batra – Research Head “RBI asks to fully write down Rs 318.20 crore of Laxmi Villas Bank’s Tier-II bonds” “Yes Bank AT1 bond write-down: RBI says investors can’t blame regulator after enjoying high returns in good times” Headlines like these started doing the...
Make a Career in the Private Bank
Keen to make a career in the Private Bank? The banks are the main source of currency circulation. Stagnated money is a setback for the economical growth of the country. Banks are bridges connecting every sector of the country, thus boosting the employment scope. The...
Employees’ Provident Fund – Understand It Better
Employees' Provident Fund – Understand it better Nishant Batra – Research Head 62326821, this is not an eight-digit landline number. This number represents the number of contributing members in Employee Provident Fund Organization during the last one year. We all...
Personal Finance 101 – Common Mistakes
Nishant Batra – Research Head In personal finance, not committing “catastrophic” mistakes has a huge role in creating wealth. Basically, most of these are traps, set by insurance agents, bank relationship managers and service providers (like insurance companies,...
PHYSICAL GOLD VS DIGITAL GOLD VS GOLD ETF VS SOVEREIGN GOLD BONDS
Gold Gold is a highly liquid instrument/commodity acceptable all over the world. Throughout the history, Gold is the most popular metal for storage of wealth and as a source of high-quality and universally accepted collateral. “The desire of gold is not for gold. It...
Fund of Fund – A Complicated Wrapper
Fund of Fund – A Complicated Wrapper Nishant Batra – Research Head I could have named this article as A to Z about Fund of Funds but decided otherwise and went for “a complicated wrapper”. It will be short article as compared to the previous ones, but it will cover...