Shariah Investments in my portfolio, no thanks! Benchmark Mutual fund announced a Shariah compliant fund recently. Of course many mutual funds (Reliance, UTI, to name 2) are all in the process of launching and managing a Shariah compliant fund. What is a Shariah compliant fund? And what does it do? Shariah, the religious law of […]

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Why are gold prices going up? There is actually only one answer – the demand for gold is greater than the supply. In fact this can be the only reason why the share price of any product goes up. Let us look at some reasons why gold prices have been going up – and I […]

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