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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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...