It really depends on person and situation and the motive of investment. One can invest in GOLD directly by buying gold in physical form like jewellery , gold biscuits , gold bars. It all of these require some maintenance and some problems are associated with investing in physical format like… Continue reading
There are many reasons why we shall look beyond conventional Fixed Deposits , PPF and high growth Shares and Mutual Funds. Gold is always seen as a thing to own and only for consuming as ornaments , for jewellery but seldom as an investment purpose , in fact silver also… Continue reading
If you had planned carefully and stuck to your plan diligently, you should be able to accumulate a sufficient corpus to meet your children’s education needs. Now is the time to fund your children’s college or higher education expense, from your accumulated assets. Since you need to fund your children’s… Continue reading
Life Insurance: Buying life insurance is not a one-time exercise. At every stage of life, you should evaluate, if you have adequate life insurance to meet the aspirations you have for your children, in the event of an unfortunate death. Your life insurance should cover not only the current expenses… Continue reading
Life Insurance: You should buy life insurance to provide financial protection for your children’s goals in the event of your untimely death. Term plans are straightforward protection policies and is the purest form of life insurance. Term plan is a much better option than traditional insurance cum savings plans like… Continue reading
Common investors usually do not pick up the trend at early stages. They join when most of the potential gains have been apportioned by either the financially expert or the institutional investors. Sometimes, the trend reversals may be very sharp, and may erode all the gains made by investors entering… Continue reading
It provides the opportunity for capital appreciation at relatively low risk, as usually the trend continues for some time, and there are enough signals of trend reversal during which the investor can take out his investment. There is relative abundance of market information about an ongoing trend and the expected… Continue reading
It is a risky strategy, as it goes against the conventional wisdom of following the market direction. There is relative information deficit regarding contrarian investment opportunities in the market, so much depends upon the assessment of the individual investor. If that goes wrong, the investment would not yield expected results…. Continue reading
It seeks to gain from the misguided market or stock movement, thus is directed towards the actual market or stock-price level. In this way, it helps in increasing the market efficiency in long term. It helps keeping the investor out of succumbing to herd mentality where mostly the early movers… Continue reading
It is an approach to investing in which the investor tries to make profit out of continuance of the existing market trend, whether upside or downside. The momentum investor believes that the current market trend is to continue for a while, and entering the market even now would provide positive… Continue reading