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Savings, Investments and Insurance – Three Different Animals

Dev Ashish

Does the title surprise you? Then it’s mainly because you have been using these three terms interchangeably, without knowing the actual difference between them. Hopefully, at the end of this…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Features: Are you killing your investment portfolio?

FundsIndia Desk

Okay, so you’ve set goals, and you’re investing for them. Congratulations! You’re a practitioner of the best and most-recommended form of investing – portfolio (or goal-based) investing. But is that…Continue Reading

Earning more and more is not enough to retire well

Dev Ashish

Your good friend earns more than you and not surprisingly, he also spends more than you. This makes you feel like he is richer than you, and you think that…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Features: Group to grow!

FundsIndia Desk

News flash: Your fund manager isn’t the only person responsible for the profitability of your investments; you are too! Yes, instead of just logging in to your FundsIndia account and…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Reviews: Equity Savings Funds

Sathyamoorthy N

Equity savings funds are a new variant in the equity mutual fund basket. Exposure to equity, a part of which is hedged, and then some debt, and you have this…Continue Reading

Why debt funds work better than FDs

Sathyamoorthy N

If you are worrying about falling interest rates leaving you with no fixed income options, you are right – if your only fixed income option is bank Fixed Deposits (FDs).…Continue Reading

Credit reports: Now available on FundsIndia

FundsIndia Desk

Your credit score is a numerical value that denotes your creditworthiness. To build a strong financial future, it is important to understand your credit. You can now download your CIBIL…Continue Reading

Consolidation Phase for Debt Market

Vidya Bala

A 25-basis point cut in repo rate to 7.25 per cent in today’s Monetary Policy review, totals to a front-loaded 75 basis point cut thus far in 2015. Further action,…Continue Reading

Can you invest in the Equity Savings Funds of Reliance and SBI?

FundsIndia Desk

Two new equity funds have hit the market – the Reliance Equity Savings Scheme, and the SBI Equity Savings Scheme. Srikanth Meenakshi, co-founder and COO, FundsIndia.com, explains the suitability of…Continue Reading

Investment Behavior: Young & Old

Nilakantan Rajaraman

FundsIndia investor distribution, much like most things related to the Internet in India, is skewed towards young working age men. As a result our investors when measured across age for…Continue Reading