Personal Finance

Bank of Japan intensifies monetary easing

The Bank of Japan has announced plans to stimulate the sputtering economy with new quantitative easing. Under new leadership, the central bank plans to double the country’s money supply by the end of next year....

US firms urge reforms in Germany

US companies like Ford, IBM and McDonalds have invested some 130 billion euros in Germany. Most would expect an attractive business location behind that drive, but can Germany really deliver? The American Chamber of Commerce...

ME Planning: The Gupta’s

Kamal is a Marketing Manager with an IT company based in Noida while his wife is a homemaker. They reside in their parental home and maintain a simple lifestyle. Kamal has predominantly invested in traditional...

Risk vs. Return

Investment is all about risk and return, and ironically both are two sides of the same coin. These two building blocks of investment decision making remain elusive to most investors and not surprisingly they have...

Budget 2013 a damp squib for real estate

The home buyers as well as the real estate industry were eagerly looking forward to some positive announcements in Budget. Some of the key expectations were infrastructure status to affordable housing, Industry Status to the...

Real Estate and Interest Rate

Interest rate is one of the important monetary tools used by the central bank to give direction to the overall economic activity. In India, the RBI uses the Bank Rate, Repo Rate, Reverse Repo Rate...

Real Estate Reforms – what to expect in 2013

The year 2013 is expected to be a landmark year as far as reforms in the real estate sector are concerned. Some of the major reforms initiated in the previous years are likely to be...

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Binged on Bing

It’s a search war yet again with Google and Bing (Microsoft’s new search engine). You might wonder what is different this time around. For those of you who haven’t experienced the new Microsoft search engine,...

Top Three Financial Resolutions for 2013

With 2012 coming to an end, it’s time to ponder over your financial performance during last year. Most of you will find that there have been many financial gaps still left to be fulfilled. There...

Different modes for investing in real estate

In India,  one can invest in real estate through following types of properties/assets :   residential property ,  commercial property ,   land ,   real estate (Private Equity)  funds . We would be discussing  each of...

IDFC Premier Equity Fund Review

Premier Equity Fund is an unrestricted diversified equity scheme that invests across market caps following a ‘buy and hold strategy’. The scheme has been designed to invest in new promising companies at cheap valuations and...

HDFC Prudence Fund Review

HDFC Prudence Fund has been a consistent performer in the Balanced Fund category. The scheme aims to provide periodic returns and capital appreciation over long-term from a judicious mix of equity and debt instruments. The...