Month: March 2011
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Best Balanced Mutual Funds in India
in Mutual Funds
A balanced mutual fund is a fund that invests in both equity and debt, and within equity it invests in large cap, mid cap, and small cap shares as well. These type of funds are meant to diversify away a little of your equity risk by exposure to debt, while maintaining decent returns as well.
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NRO and NRE account: How to open it when you’re abroad
in NRI
NRE (Non Resident External) and NRO (Non Resident Ordinary) are two types of accounts that NRIs (Non Resident Indians) can open if they need a way to transfer money, open a fixed deposit, or buy mutual funds, and stocks in India. What follows is a sequence of events that will take place, and some pointers
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How to open a NPS account?
in Investments
One of the most frequent questions on the NPS post is how one can open a NPS account, and though things have improved in the past few months – most of the times opening a NPS account is not as easy as it should be. I tried to look at the various ways you can
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Life Insurance Calculator
in Insurance
In my last post about how much insurance you need – I wrote about my thoughts on how you could go about calculating your life insurance needs, and both Sumant and Hema brought out a significant limitation with the way I went about the calculation. I was taking into account the annual expenses, expected rate
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MOSt Shares NASDAQ 100 ETF
in ETF
This is another post from the Suggest a Topic page, and this time we’re going to take a look at the recently launched MOSt Shares NASDAQ 100 ETF from Motilal Oswal. The NFO for this ETF has recently closed on the 23rd March 2011, but regular readers know that it doesn’t make any difference if
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Comparing Term Insurance Claim Rejections
in Insurance
A few days ago I posted the premiums charged by different term insurance companies, and as a follow up to that post I shared the claim settlement data of some insurers last week. Today I’m going to share the claim settlement ratio of all 23 life insurance companies in India for the December 2010 quarter.
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How often does India win when Sachin scores a century?
in Opinion
There is this thing I keep hearing that Sachin’s centuries are not all that lucky for India, and we generally lose when he scores them. A lot of people have this impression, and I thought I’d dig deeper and figure out if there’s anything behind this. The data that I found surprised me quite a
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Planning gold purchases for a future occassion
in Investments
Amit left the following comment a few days ago: I want to buy gold for my sisters marriage which will be in december 2012. So i am planning to buy gold(in solid form) for making jewellery for her wedding. Please let me know which month is the best to buy gold in solid form. Before
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Rupee Camp, Internet Kill Switch, Libya Oil imports
in Links
Ranjan Varma has started Rupee Camp which is a personal finance workshop meant to be a structured program to provide people with money skills. I’ve obviously not attended this so I don’t know how good it is but I do like Ranjan’s blog, so I thought I’d let OneMint readers know about his initiative. The
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Profile: Shiv, Independent Financial Adviser
in Directory of Financial Services Providers
As I’ve said earlier – I’m trying to create a directory of financial services providers here, and today I’m going to post a profile of another financial adviser – Shiv. He has been pretty active on the infrastructure bond posts and has been answering questions clearly and honestly, so I invited him to create a
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