Investment

A recent study by Mercer's 2011, Cost of Living Survey claimed that New Delhi (rank 85) is India's most expensive city followed by Mumbai (rank 95). The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seems to have been taking steps to improve…

Diwali is round the corner and so is Dhanteras. On Dhanteras, individuals and business communities consider it auspicious to purchase gold or silver articles or at least sombre steel utensils – with the belief that new ‘dhan’ or some form…

This is one thing which surprised me at least when I read the headline of the news article. Surprised because till date I didn’t know that something called a diamond exchange existed. A diamond exchange and that too the world’s largest…

It is quite clear that we are seeing the end of recession and have taken the high growth path. However, the acute problem we’re facing is still unknown to us: FOOD SECURITY. Yesterday, Food inflation had aggravated to 11%. Just take a…

Investopedia says “Mutual Fund’s main advantage is that they give small investors access to professionally managed, diversified portfolios of equities, bonds and other securities, which would be quite difficult (if not impossible) to create…

IT Services Outsourcing Industry witnessed a rather dull year in 2009 majorly due to the slowdown of the global economy which led to organizations freezing their IT budgets. Banking and Manufacturing, which are the biggest customers for the…

We have already see that Indians are currently most optimistic investors on back of robust growth in the domestic consumption market and a positive economic outlook. Having said that the first question that would come to the…

Isn’t rebound equal to the recovery? Not really! Read on… The rebound in the market valuations in the global markets in 2009 has not turned out to be an all-inclusive recovery around the sphere. Despite impressive gains registered during…

A couple of weeks back, SEBI had proposed a wide range of changes in the rules governing the operation of mutual funds. One of such proposals is related to the dividend pay-out from mutual funds to the unit holders. Sebi has imposed a…

Is there a safe way to invest in Market? – There is none – Some are safer and some are riskier, depends on your appetite for Risk. This Finance Friday post is directed at people who are just getting into Stock markets and want to…