Watch the interview of Nilesh Gupta, Managing Partner of Vijay Sales, Ajit Joshi, President & COO of Urban Ladder, Govind Shrikhande, MD of Shoppers Stop, Sanchit Vir Gogia, Founder of Greyhound Research and Kartik Jhaveri of Transcend Consulting with CNBC-TV18's Surabhi Upadhyay where they advised on how one should spend wisely this festive season.
Before trying to answer the question, it is important to know what the terms mean.
A focussed approach to saving can help you build a corpus over a period of time.
Pay yourself to start with, after all you have earned that money.
Providing a well-panned and well budget home with sustainable infrastructures, will bring the prospect of home ownership back into the grasp of millennials.
‘Free cash’ is always welcome. If such free cash can be tapped, then one can boost his savings really fast.
The data now being made available provides granular insights on projects as well as their promoters.
A change in credit rating of a bond changes the yield the bond offers.
This instrument certainly looks appealing and tantalizing for most of the traders; but, one has to understand the risk factor involved in it.
Many of the customers (whether in India or in other countries) would like to make a visit to the apartment or the land on which the building is going to come up - to get a first-hand view of the location, locality and approach.
Saving is a key to any kind of investment, but merely saving would not guide you through uncertain time.
Investors should look for opportunities at short to medium term of the yield curve focusing on accrual strategy and building yield in their portfolio.
Gone are the days when only the elderly could or would buy homes on the back of their life savings.
For each property bought, there has to be a seller. So, it can never be a 'buyer's market' without a seller selling one.
High time to fully explore and unbox its massive potential
To monitor your performance over the long term or against benchmarks like the Nifty, the annualised return is more informative because it describes the performance in consistent, annual terms.
The financial health of an insurance company can be assessed by the policyholder by reviewing the company’s financial ratios.
Possibility of earning quick money trading in stocks and the thrill of investing in a rising NAV mutual funds further make these investments attractive.
The first POS terminals emerged in 1979, when Visa introduced a bulky EDC (electronic data capturing) terminal for magnetic stripe cards.
The idea of buy on dips is not a bad one. But when used to buy momentum stocks on small corrections leads to a disaster.
The present FDI norms could create problems not just for the new applicants, but also for the existing pension fund managers.
'As a financial advisor, I tend to correlate everything I read to us, our lives and how we can ensure that we invest better to make our lives richer'.
Studies conducted a few years back showed that performance of a random entry strategy can be improved by a proper well-defined exit strategy.
These six banks, three private and three public, offer the lowest interest rates when buying a house.
There are often bizarre stories of outrageous fraud but if you are to dig down and look at it, most of these could have been avoided if the victims, at some point or other, had been careful and used common sense methods to safeguard themselves.