Shivani Chaluvadi

Shivani Chaluvadi is an avid investor in the Indian markets. She is an MBA graduate and through her writing inspires many readers to start their investment journey. Her expertise lies in communicating a complex financial concept in a simplified way. As an entrepreneur, she believes in grabbing every opportunity that comes her way. She brings more than four years of financial markets expertise to the team.

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Portfolio Rebalancing

Portfolio Rebalancing is a strategy of realigning the securities weights in a portfolio to maintain the target asset allocation and risk profile. It involves selling a few investments and buying to increase investment in existing securities or adding funds to...

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How Long is Long Term in Mutual Funds?

Mutual funds have diverse options to choose from. There are funds for every need and each time period. There are funds for the long term and short term. For tax purposes, short term and long term are defined.  In mutual...

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Best Investment Plan

The best investment plan for every investor can be different. What suits one investor might not suit the other mainly because their goals, financial situation, and risk tolerance levels vary. Though every investor is unique, we have categorised them based...

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4 Tips to Avoid Bad Investments in 2025

Bad investment decisions often lead to bad investments. Investing without proper knowledge is one of the mains reasons for bad investments. For example, investing in equities for the short term, or debt products for the long run are some of...

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How to Avoid Paying Interest on Credit Cards?

Credit cards loans can be dangerous, especially for the new users and the ones who fell into its trap. What technically seems like free money is rather a costly affair. If you are planning to get yourself a credit card,...

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Importance of Risk Profiling in Mutual Fund

Risk and return are two sides of a coin Risk and return are two sides of the same coin. With high return comes high risk and vice versa. One needs to take the needed risk to earn the excess return....

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Side Pocketing in Mutual Funds

Even though debt funds are safe among mutual funds, they are not entirely risk-free. They have many related risks, and the most common is credit risk. Credit risk or risk of default in payments is present in every debt scheme....

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Tips to Use Credit Cards Effectively in 2025

Credit cards have become a part of our life. For anything and everything, we end up using credit cards because of the rewards it offers. Credit cards have directly or indirectly increased our spending. We first spend and regret it...