The experience of watching the first season nearly 8 years back and the journey with the characters (or at least whoever is left!!) over these years will occupy a permanent place in memories of GOT addicts. The journey, like investing, has some parallels.

Some investors nullify the benefits of an SIP, by making the wrong moves.

A quick look at the returns of BSE’s sectoral and thematic indices shows that the sectors which have done well in the period between 2014 and now do not include sectors like capital goods, manufacturing, infrastructure, realty, power, and PSUs where most of the policy action has happened. In fact, these are some of the worst performing sectors.

ELSS is one of the most popular instruments for saving on taxes. With its impeccable track record of beating inflation hands down to its lesser lock-in period (of three years), ELSS as a savings instrument has scored over PPF, Bank fixed deposits and other tax-saving instruments. However, investors need to guard themselves against some common mistakes committed while investing into ELSS.

Many people have a number in their heads which makes up their dream corpus but rarely do they consider if this dream corpus will actually allow them to maintain their lifestyle, years later.

For an overseas education, you are looking at a tuition expense upwards of Rs 25 lakhs a year depending on the destination and nature of the course.

We hope to make this Women's Day about the step that you take to achieve financial independence and empower others around you as well.

The answer is International funds of funds. This is a mutual fund that invests in other mutual funds. Instead of owning shares of companies, such a mutual fund owns units of other mutual fund(s).

Work backwards while planning for the amount required. For a private college education in India, the fee today can be anywhere between Rs 8-15 lakhs for the entire graduation course and a similar amount reaching up to Rs 25 lakhs or so for post-graduation.

Focus on the fact that, despite these problems, funds have been doing well

Here’s our assessment of equity and debt markets in February 2019. Apart from the elections, one of the larger issues having an impact on the markets is the spate of selling by foreign portfolio investors (FPI), driven by US-China trade war.

We have seen some people view stock market investing as a zero sum game – which means that if someone makes money, correspondingly someone would have lost. There is a sense of scepticism while investing in stocks, as if it is a gambling den.