Investments

Whether you are buying an insurance policy or investing in mutual funds, do you take the right investment decisions at the right time. Whenever you feel low or the time is not in your favour, the first thing that gets affected by this feeling is your decision making process. Factors like wavering social or financial […]

Listen to this article Buying a house is considered as one of the top priorities for any individual. At the same time, buying a house is the most time consuming and high energy demanding task of our lives. ‘I bought a house for ‘x’ amount 5 years back. My friend who invested same amount in […]

“There is no gain without pain” is a common adage which many people believe in. Perhaps the gains which they have attained in the various spheres of life have been consistently greater than the proportion of risk and pain taken. So what is it about ‘risk’? How does one identify risks beforehand and what measures […]

Diversification of investment means selecting multiple asset classes or investing in the different asset categories. It is a popular technique employed by most investors to lower risk and increase the chances of good returns. Unfolding your investment in different areas develops a risk-proof portfolio, which means if one investment fails, another will balance it out. […]

While investing in stocks, bonds and mutual funds, past performance becomes a strong input in making investment decisions. Question, should keep on relying on it excessively or there are other indicators available to investors, on which they can rely on to make investment decisions. Table of Contents: While looking at past performance look at the […]

Personality and rationality: : Human behavior is a complicated concoction of three elements: the Id, the Ego and the Superego as per the psychoanalytical theory propounded by Sigmund Freud. The id is present in a person from his or her birth and is a set of primitive behavioral traits. Ego, is that element in a […]