Month: March 2010
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Let me tell you a secret
in Opinion
I am in the market to buy a car these days, and while the process is really frustrating me because of reasons I don’t want to get into here, I have realized there is a lot to learn from car salesmen. One of the most interesting things I noticed is how a lot of them
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Economy and your finances carnival March 28th 2010
in Articles
Welcome to this poorly formatted edition of my carnival. I apologize for the formatting, but I have spent an insane amount of time trying to get it right, but for some reason couldn’t get it to work. So please bear with me because at least the formatting doesn’t impact the quality of the posts themselves.
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Tanks, guns and jets
in Links
I didn’t mean for this to happen, but I somehow ended up reading these stories one after the other and thought I’d make a quick links post with these stories. 1. Israeli tanks in Gaza in worst clash of the year 2. South Korean navy ship sinks 3. Arjun tank outruns Russian T – 90s
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How to find tax saving mutual funds?
in Mutual Funds
With the tax season around the corner, there is quite a bit of interest in tax saving mutual funds. I wrote about one such fund – SBI Magnum taxgain a few days ago, and I thought I’d create a comprehensive list of tax saving mutual funds. But, on further research I found that there is
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State Bank of India Interest Rates
in Fixed Deposits
Update: October 18 2012 I updated my bank interest rates page yesterday, and realized how many different types of interest rates there are. So, I thought I’d create this page with State Bank of India interest rates that will act as a reference for different types of interest rates as well as a ready reference
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Systematic Investment Plan
in Mutual Funds
We have talked about systematic investment plans (SIPs) several times, but only with respect to ETFs, and there is no post here that talks about systematic investment plans in general, so I thought I’d do a post about the nuances of a SIP. A systematic investment plan or SIP (as it is more commonly known)
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Difference between investing and gambling
in Investments
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Economy and your finances carnival March 20 2010
in Articles
Welcome to the March 7, 2010 edition of Economy and your finances. This carnival is not as long as the other ones because there weren’t that many entries. The carnival has not been as regular as it was in the past and that may be one reason for that. Anyway, the entries that are present
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Do you know this guy?
in Articles
Got this via The Big Picture who got it via Time, and am embedding it here using YouTube. Gotta love the intertubes. Enjoy.
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SBI Magnum Taxgain scheme
in Mutual Funds
Image by Alan Cleaver SBI Magnum Taxgain scheme is a mutual fund from SBI that helps you get tax benefit under section 80 C (the one with the one lakh limit), and primarily invests in equity. Before I go any further, let me state that there is a 3 year lock in period in this
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