January 16, 2012
How to start investing in stocks is the first thing which will come to your mind when you think of making money in stock market. How to get started investing sounds like a complicated term for the beginners in stock market but with development of technology and flurry of brokers in the market, it has become extremely easy for a beginner to invest in stocks and mutual funds in India.
December 27, 2011
Jeevan Sathi is an Endowment Assurance Plan from LIC and it is issued on the lives of husband and wife. Jeevan Sathi plan provides financial protection against death of both the lives. It pays the maturity amount on survival of one or both the lives to the end of the policy term.
December 27, 2011
Child future plan from LIC is specially designed to meet the increasing educational, marriage and other needs of growing children. It provides the risk cover on the life of child not only during the policy term but also during the extended term (i.e. 7 years after the expiry of policy term). A number of Survival benefits are payable on surviving by the life assured to the end of the specified durations.
October 21, 2011
As December is coming close, salaried people are gearing up for tax saving and looking for tax saving schemes. In some time, we all will be filing our tax declaration form in our companies and self employed will start preparing for income tax filing. Tax saving is a important ritual of this part of year. Tax saving schemes are those schemes which are allowed by the government of India and we can avail tax benefit by investing in them. There are lot of Tax saving schemes available in the market today.
October 15, 2011
Rs 20000 invested in infrastructure will attract tax deduction but the interest earned on it is taxable. There is one additional factor which should be accounted before investing in Infrastructure bonds in India and that is they do not offer any protection against rising inflation as their rates are prefixed. These investments in infrastructure bonds are considered safe but they do not guarantee that you will be your invested principal back.
January 10, 2011
With the recent changes in ULIP guidelines, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority has suddenly put a break to the wild sale of ULIPs by life insurance companies and added a new chapter in the Life Insurance Industry history. Ever since of ULIPs were introduced in Indian market, they were the favorite of the companies and companies were only focusing upon them. They were launching most of the new products in ULIP category. This was mainly because of the high margin in ULIP business. Now as the guidelines have changed, those margins have shrunk and life insurance companies are being forced to relook their product portfolios.