Month: August 2012

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

India Infoline Finance Limited NCD Review
in Featured, Investments

This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in India Infoline Finance Limited (formerly known as India Infoline Investment Services Ltd.) will be launching its second issue of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) from September 5, 2012.
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Why are we obsessed with saving taxes?
in Opinion

A common type of comment that I’ve seen over the years starts with describing a situation like planning for retirement, children’s eduction, wedding etc. and ends with asking about ways to save tax. What is this obsession with saving taxes? For a lot of people, specially if you are starting out and don’t have a
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Mutual Fund Capital Gains Statement and Consolidated Account Statement Online
in Investments

This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in Not many mutual fund investors know that they don’t require services of their distributors or any other agent/advisor to check the status of their investments or
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Don’t anonymously criticize the power couple who is reinventing the toilet
in Links

Let’s start this week with a post at AVC that was written almost a year ago about Sustainability. This is a great post and there’s nothing I can add to it except perhaps saying that I’ve felt that many times you do things only because that’s the way it is done or was taught in
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Best Company Fixed Deposits – Returns-Wise & Safety-Wise – Be Wise
in Featured, Investments

This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in Continuous volatility in the stock markets coupled with bad macro-economic data, high inflation numbers and unclear government policies have forced many investors to shift their investments
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How did CAG reach the figure of 1.86 lakh crores?
in Economy, Featured

CAG’s report on coal allocation was the big news last week, and the figure of Rs. 1.86 lakhs got a lot of attention as you would have expected it to. It has now become a regular feature of CAG reports to have a massive number which represents the loss to exchequer and I was curious
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CIBIL Credit Score – Negative Factors and Ways to Improve your Score
in Credit, Featured

This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in Many of you must have checked your CIBIL credit score sometime in the past and for some of you it must have got a surprise either
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Bolt goes to Marwari Business School after making money mistakes
in Links

The best thing I read this week was The Seven Subjects I learnt at Marwari Business School (MBS) by Alok ‘Rodinhood’ Kejriwal. This is a great post from the entrepreneur who shares things that he has learned during his career, and I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever thought of starting their own
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