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Bonus shares: A tax saving scheme?
Update 2022: This tax saving scheme is now gone, with the income tax bill saying that shares cannot be used to do bonus stripping. Lots of Indian companies ...
Foundations
Capital Guarantee Plus Appreciation?
Sandeep Shanbhag explains how you can get “assured” returns: by putting a part of your capital in a fixed income instrument like National Savings ...
Foundations
Mutual Funds: Dividend option or Growth option
Most mutual funds have multiple options for investment, for the same scheme: 1) Growth option 2) Dividend option (with either automatic reinvestment or as a ...
General
How much do you need, in order to retire?
I’m curious about this: what is REAL financial security? To me it is the ability to build income PURELY through returns on your investments, and have ...
General
ULIP NAV comparison table
Plan Oct 6, 2005 Oct 6, 2006 Growth SBI: Horizon 15.590 24.420 56.64% Sensex 8,528.700 12,372.810 45.07% Kotak aggressive 14.745 21.192 43.72% Reliance Life ...
Economy
Cost Inflation Index announced for 2006-07
If you sell a capital asset (gold, real estate, stock not traded on the NSE or BSE etc.) you will need to pay Capital Gains Tax. This tax is paid only on the ...
General
India Investment Blogs
As improbable as it may seem, you’ll want to read more than my not-so-humble opinion on Personal Investment in India. Here’s a list of places you ...
Stocks
Markets at 12,450…what to do?
The Sensex has hit the 12,450 mark, just short of it’s all time high of 12,671 in May. What does one do now? The recent rally has been a large cap rally, ...
General
ULIPs: Stay or get out?
PC asks: I would like your opinion on the investment that i made this year. One of my colleagues suggested me to put in my money in ulip’s. I foolishly ...
Stocks