Happy Birthday EquiTipz!! EquiTipz completes one year of powering Personal Finance today, thanks to all the wonderful readers and writers for all the support and making EquiTipz a success. It is such an immense pleasure and a touching moment for me as EquiTipz has been like a baby to me. Photo Credit: <Link> EquiTipz is…
What is Reverse Mortgage? A reverse mortgage (or lifetime mortgage) is a loan available to senior citizens. The finance minister of India introduced this scheme in 2007 which is already well known concept in the West. “Reverse mortgage”, as its name suggests, in simple words is just the opposite of a normal housing loan. Image…
All the fund houses recently are betting big in technology to reach out to real investors to attain their attention. So, after internet, it’s now the turn of mobile phones. UTI Mutual Fund (MF) is planning to launch a mobile transaction platform in the coming months. “The UTI MF will be the first fund house…
Are you losing your hard-earned money in the share markets or making a little or even less than what you should ideally be? Do you still wonder what people like Warren Buffet, Anthony Bolton know about the market investing strategies that you do not? Well their secret is very simple : They buy the shares…
Making money by investing in the Indian stock Markets is not a child’s play. For an investor to make money in this big market with tens of hundreds of stocks, there are a number of aspects to be considered in order to clinch success and walk out being the ‘Smart Investor.’ For instance, a day…
Last time we discussed about “What is a Virtual credit Card?” to help you avoid any fraudulent transaction on your Credit Card. In this article we are going to discuss about how to calculate the interest-free days for your credit card. Nowadays, everyone uses a Credit Card and we are slowly and gradually realizing the…
EquiTipz, started in February, 2009 and his is the first New Year for the blog. Now, we are in 2010. EquiTipz wishes all it’s readers and contributors the best of wishes for the new year 2010. This was a great year for Equitipz and we continue to deliver quality content and tips for our honourable…
Investors generally form their views on equities by looking at the movement of the BSE Sensex. When they see Sensex rising towards the green territory everyone runs to buy thinking that they are missing on gains and the same happens when the Sensex shows sharp dips. They discuss among themselves and friends that it is…
Remember the time when you took a Personal loan to fund a requirement for your parents? Or, you had to take a loan for purchasing a vehicle or the loan was for your marriage or any other reason. The occasion goes through pretty well and now comes the first EMI and you wake up by…
The extreme volatile conditions in the recent past in the markets have led to hysterical selling by many investors. And this panic-stricken selling is not limited to stocks alone. There were many investors who have redeemed their mutual fund schemes and have stopped their monthly SIPs too. However, if you look at it from the…
All of us find reasons before making any kind of investments. A couple of days ago, I was in the same dilemma and I was asking myself the reasons why I should buy Gold. Here, I am listing a few of them that I had in my mind to justify my thought of investing in…
What Does Stop-Loss Order Mean?In simple words, Stop-Loss Order is an order placed with a broker to sell a share/security when it reaches a certain price as per the risk taking capacity of the investor. A stop-loss order is designed to limit an investor’s loss on a security position. It is solely decided as per…