For the true blue speculator one more product is available – the Currency Derivatives. All brokerage houses now provide you with this new product – and is available with just a few clicks. So if you do not know anything about $, Euro, Pound, Jap Yen, ….you are still welcome to deal in EURINR (Euro […]

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this is a part of the inflation story in Moneymantra…. Well there are two things to understand – inflation hurts only in the long run. If you have an expenditure coming up in the next 2 years inflation should not be a bother. However if you are looking at the longer run – say upwards […]

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The Kharghoshs were leading a comfortable, lifestyle. Typical Alpha male knew everything about investing by reading brokerage websites! He knew that equity gives best returns, so he had a leveraged life style! His house, car, vacations, were all from borrowings. He had ALWAYS earned far greater than the interest rates that he was paying. He […]

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Banks lending in rural India is a great thing to have happened. Most people who borrow are genuine  -but there are some politically supported borrowers too. The main reason why a person in India (or in any part of the world too!) repays the loan is ‘because it is the right thing to do’. This […]

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Personal financial planning is the development and implementation of a comprehensive plan to help a person achieve financial goals. The idea is to focus on these goals as the starting point in a financial planning process. In the planning process, an individual’s financial affairs (i.e., investments, savings borrowings, insurance, retirement plans, estate plan, charity, and […]

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