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Sport stars need a special kind of financial literacy because they have a strange kind of earnings profile. This is how their financial life looks....

MAS Team | 08 April 2016

Mutual Funds

How did HDFC Equity bet on the end of the previous market 'cycles'?

Worried investors have pulled out money from the scheme and many are wondering whether HDFC MF has lost its magic touch

MAS Team | 19 March 2016

Mutual Funds

Fund managers are making ill-informed bets darting in and out of stocks

When picking a mutual fund scheme, do take a look at the portfolio turnover ratio

MAS Team | 20 February 2016

Consumer Protection

Not just students even professors need financial literacy

Since financial literacy levels are low in India, several people, including many highly educated ones fall into such traps

MAS Team | 19 February 2016

Stocks

The Easiest Way to Lose Money—Invest in IPOs

When we analysed the upcoming IPOs last year, we found that none of the businesses are great and all of them were overpriced

MAS Team | 12 February 2016

Mutual Funds

Buy High, Sell Low is the retail investor mantra?

Redemptions have increased as the market has started trending downwards. A market bottom would have been a great time to get in, but, that was when...

MAS Team | 06 February 2016

Insurance

16 kinds of fake insurance calls

Hundreds of people fall in the trap of fake insurance calls. The fraudulent callers are increasingly ingenuous and appeal to our sense of fear and...

MAS Team | 23 January 2016

Fixed income

Will lower interest rates automatically mean higher yield?

Every adviser and market expert is now advising investors to invest in bond funds and other market-linked debt products on the assumption that RBI...

MAS Team | 24 December 2015

Insurance

5 Reasons to Still Avoid ULIPs

Unit-linked Insurance Products (ULIPs) have evolved over the years. Their charges are no longer too high and so investors are curious to know whether...

Raj Pradhan | 19 September 2015

Mutual Funds

Debt schemes to avoid at all costs

Moneylife has often highlighted such risks in debt schemes. They are not for average savers who do not understand the risks associated with...

MAS Team | 11 September 2015

Mutual Funds

Don’t ask your banker for MF recommendations

Data shows banks push products of fund companies of the group

Jason Monteiro | 04 September 2015

Tax

Even the worst ELSS outperformed PPF over 15 years

Investments in equity-linked savings schemes (ELSS) of a mutual fund would yield higher returns compared to other fixed income instruments like...

MAS Team | 26 June 2015

Alternative Investment

While FIIs pumped funds and bought equities, Indians bought gold. Who won?

Over the period from 2001 to 2014, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) invested $154 billion in Indian equity and individuals back home have...

MAS Team | 06 June 2015

Alternative Investment

Don’t fall for misleading media articles on gold

Many analysts make a fatal assumption that every time the dollar value of gold falls, the weakness of the rupee to the dollar will steady the price...

MAS Team | 17 April 2015

Retirement

Planning to invest in NPS? Here’s why you should think again

NPS is in the ‘exempt-exempt-tax’ (EET) category. Tax is exempt on the amount while investing and during accumulation, but taxed at the...

MAS Team | 28 March 2015

Retirement

Here’s why you should ignore tax-saving investment option under NPS

Should you choose NPS as the investment option to get the extra tax deduction of Rs50,000? No

MAS Team | 05 March 2015

Insurance

Over 50% of equity oriented ULIPs couldn’t beat the Sensex before charges

If you are looking to generate wealth from your investments at a low cost, ULIPs will be a poor choice

MAS Team | 20 February 2015

Insurance

Working for Shah Rukh Khan didn’t help

Charu Khandal, animator with Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment had just celebrated after her team won a national award for the special...

MAS Team | 10 January 2015

Financial Planning

The Sham of Investor Education: ULIPs Vs Mutual Funds

In the name of investor education, moneycontrol.com is providing its readers with incomplete information and benefits of ULIPs over MFs that are not...

MAS Team | 23 September 2014

Financial Planning

PPF beats Sensex over a 20-year period? The truth

Recently an article appeared in Economic Times dramatically stated that an investment in a Public Provident Fund (PPF) would have beaten the Sensex...

MAS Team | 28 August 2014

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