A falling market is the time to invest for the long term; it helps garner more MF units. After keeping their nerve till September, mutual fund investors seem to be finally buckling under the pressure

Though property prices have declined, renting still makes sense in heated markets For Nagpur-based Deepak Puranik, scouting for a house in Mumbai was the next step to being offered a job in the city.

SKS Microfinance, India's only listed microlender fighting a cash crunch, said on Wednesday its shareholders approved raising the investment limit of foreign institutional investors in the company to

The Union government will be tweaking some provisions in the pension reforms Bill to facilitate easier passage in Parliament. It will also alter certain norms in the current pension scheme, to make it

Being linked to the government bonds, rates on small saving schemes may fluctuate. Bangalore-based certified financial planner Anil Rego says small saving schemes used to provide a cushion when

Uncertain times offer attractive valuations. The stock markets are passing through turbulent times. The euphoria and over-confidence witnessed just a year ago has vanished. There is pessimism all

There will be tax incidence on a number of things such as cars, jewellery and paintings. Though most of us tend to focus on income-tax, there is another direct tax all of us are subject to -- the

Financial burden mounting for those studying with bank loans from here. The depreciating rupee has Aurangabad-based Aditya Ambarkar worried. He got admission early this year to North Carolina State

The worst nightmare for a financial planner is investors refusing to exit stocks or mutual funds because of emotional reasons. "It is very difficult to do financial planning for such clients. We have

Independent Financial Advisors (IFAs), who have been grappling with regulatory changes over the last two years, are still betting more on mutual funds than other financial products. The income,