Creating wealth over the long run eventually boils down to managing your money better. You quite often find that people with the same level of income end up with vastly different amount of wealth just because one plans his savings and investments bet

Millennials are the next generation of the baby boomers. It is the young crowd that is tech savvy, has a good education and has joined the productive mainstream. We can argue that investing essentials remain the same for everyone, but here is the cro

Saving a portion of your salary and allocating the funds to a systematic investment plan (SIP) is quite straight forward. The real challenge arises when you don’t have the luxury of receiving an SMS on the last day of every month that your salary h

The GDP growth for the June quarter has fallen to a 7 year low of 5. That is just one of the indicators. PMI manufacturing and PMI services are showing loss of momentum. The latest core sector growth is tepid at 2.1. But the biggest signs of a slow

The demat account holds your shares and other securities in custody in electronic format. Opening and operating a demat account is a major financial decision because it is going to hold all your investments in electronic form. Even before you open an

Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman tabled Union Budget 2019-20 today. This is her first budget under Secord term of Modi Led NDA Government. The budget was a balanced one keeping in mind that it was an election year. Following are the key announcem

The capital markets have normally looked forward to the budget quite eagerly. Nani Palkhivala had famously said that “India was the only country where the budget was an event”. For the capital markets, the budget still remains the biggest event.

Sensex was launched in 1986 and its base year refers to April 01st 1979. What exactly is this Sensex, which has emerged as a barometer of the Indian stock market performance as well as a signal of the health of the Indian economy? Check out the 1 yea

When King Ptolemy asked the great mathematician, Euclid, for a simpler approach to geometry, Euclid responded, “Your Highness, there is no royal road to geometry”. What was said about geometry many centuries ago is equally applicable to s

After three phases of the Election - 2019, the fate of 302 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha is sealed. The remaining seats shall see voting in four more phases over the next few weeks. The Nifty and the Sensex have scaled to new highs ahead of the 2

Trading unlike investing appears to be a high risk game and quite often it is. There is no tested method of earning higher returns in trading and it comes with practice in the live market environment. While there is nothing foolproof, here are five t

Nifty is the short form for the NSE Fifty and as the name suggests it consists of the 50 most active and liquid stocks in the Indian markets. Unlike the Sensex which uses 1979 as the base year, the Nifty uses 1995 as the base year since the NSE itsel