Category Archives: Personal Finance

Infosys Takes Cover For Its Employees

Software major Infosys Technologies has renewed its insurance cover with National Insurance Company for a marginally higher sum of Rs 10,500 crore for the year 2010-11, as against Rs 9,500 crore last year. The insurance cover includes company’s assets in … Continue reading

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Riskfree & Assured Returns Financial Products in India

Thanks to the crash in the equity markets and the dent in trust in creditworthiness of corporate papers, the non-equity based investment schemes are the flavour of the season. If the lure of ‘riskfree and assured returns’ scheme attracts investors, … Continue reading

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Financial Literacy Drive Treasure Post

This post links to a treasure trove of information on personal finance. Actually, April was National Financial Literacy Month in the US and JDR (GetRichSlowly) has the ultimate collection of posts covering everything on Personal Finance. Other than the 20 … Continue reading

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Please Subscribe to the improved blog

I feel like a sheep today. The reason is that I am requesting you to take the trouble of migrating to the new improved blog. The blog is linked to a Personal Finance website It also has a discussion forum … Continue reading

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Personal Finance Website Update

Nine months ago I did not know what a blog is? Stuck up at home due to a back injury, I was casually chatting up with a geeky friend asking him about how to create a website, purely in jest. … Continue reading

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What is Finance?

I was in Rishikesh a few years back in the winters and one old resident told me, “The water is warm when the Sun has not risen. Try it”, with a straight face. Next morning, it was pretty dark when … Continue reading

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Power and Magic of Compounding

Simple maths tell us more about the power of starting early and investing regularly rather than any rants. Check out this simple calculator by Hugh where he gives an option to compare two savings/investing options. I have taken the following … Continue reading

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Financial Literacy Drive Treasure Post

This post links to a treasure trove of information on personal finance. Actually, April was National Financial Literacy Month in the US and JDR (GetRichSlowly) has the ultimate collection of posts covering everything on Personal Finance. Other than the 20 … Continue reading

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You need to be Lucky and brave!

As an asset class, Equity stocks offer the best returns. But so many of us have burnt our fingers in the process? How is it that very few investors can make real profits, grow their networth and consistently beat the … Continue reading

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Derivative for Dummies: By a Dummy

Yes, it’s for Dummies and by a dummy on Derivatives. So here’s what lil’ bit of Derivatives I understand(or pretend to..). Read on…. Derivative is a product whose value is derived from the value of one or more basic variables, … Continue reading

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