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Inflation means that over time the prices for everyday goods and services tend to rise. This steady increase makes each unit of money worth a little less than before, so your cash buys fewer items as time goes on. In simple terms, when inflation goes up, the same sum of money will not get you …
Everyone plans for the future, whether it’s for daily tasks or vacations. We even take time to organize our monthly or yearly budgets. However, many of us are less motivated when it comes to retirement planning. The importance of retirement planning is often overlooked, and we tend to delay it until later in life. Retirement …
The average investor loses money on bank fixed deposits (FDs). A one-year fixed deposit with a nationalized bank in India, assuming 30% interest tax, has provided returns less than consumer inflation in ten of the previous thirteen years. The investor ended up a full percentage point behind inflation over the course of those 13 years. That …
The idea that “real estate investment never leads to losses” is a popular belief among investors. There is a widespread belief that if you hang onto a property long enough, you will always make money. Let us try to figure out if it is true. How do investors calculate loss and gain? Investors calculate losses …
We must be precise in our retirement planning since one may be unable to return to job throughout their retirement years, and it may be far too late to fully recover from the risks of a low retirement corpus.The three most important things to consider when building your retirement corpus are inflation-adjusted retirement costs, projected …
If you’re thinking about investing in gold, there are certain points you should know. Gold is unquestionably a hedge—not only against inflation, but against the volatility of other asset classes such as equity and, at times, bonds. Historically, gold has been chosen during financial meltdowns when stocks fall and government and corporate bonds lose value. So, …
This generation of Indians has an extremely difficult task in supporting their retirement. Recently, every conversation about retirement in India has devolved into a dispute about whether the New Pension System or the Old Pension Scheme is preferable. However, this topic is meaningless to 96% of Indians because the Central and State governments employ just approximately …
For retail investors, to manage their investment portfolio volatility due to both macro and micro level factors such as inflation, geo-political crisis, stock market fluctuations, etc., financial experts advice that InvIT’s and Reits could be a good choice for portfolio diversification. Both InvITs and Reits have lately received attention, with mutual fund companies seeking for …
Significant breakthroughs in healthcare have prolonged people’s lifespan, mostly in wealthy countries. People who do not have appropriate personal savings or pensions risk outliving their retirement assets! Those who are experiencing an economic crisis in their finances may decide to leave retirement and return to employment on an intermittent, part-time, or full-time basis. This is done …
Inflation is still a contentious problem that has alienated everyone from central banks to people due to its erosion of value and depletion of savings. The vast majority of people attribute excessive inflation to external factors such as supply chain disruptions brought on by the geopolitical events surrounding us, which shook the world’s markets. Unreasonably …