How does Short Term Capital Gain/Loss work?

I found this interesting snippet circulated through email by ICICIDirect, which describes in simple anecdotes how Short Term Capital Gain/Lo...

Lessons from the sub-prime crisis

On Tuesday, the US senate passed the $819 billion economic stimulus bill , the second of the rescue package for the drowning US economy. Oth...

Of Micro SIPs

For mutual funds having a Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) option, the SIP amount came down to as low as Rs. 500 per month but there were a ...

Why Mutual Funds Entry Load scrapping by SEBI is justified

Starting January 4 2008, mutual fund investors wouldn’t need to pay the existing entry load of 2.25% while investing in a fund directly thro...

Endowment Policies – when it comes to maximizing returns

“Back in July 2002, I took an endowment policy. I was in my first job and for the first time in my life I was submitting investment proof to...

US Sub-prime Crisis

The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis or simply sub-prime crisis has been the catchphrase in various media over the last few weeks. In th...

NFOs and expansion of AMCs

Once again Mutual Fund Houses have entered into the New Fund Offer (NFO) bandwagon. With Asset Management Companies (AMC) such as Fidelity, ...

MF Entry Load

A sum equal to 2.25% of the investment amount is taken by Mutual Fund Houses of India as an entry fee for the investment made by investors. ...