Does the 50,000 have any meaning?

Is it just a big round number with a lot of useless hype around it? Maybe not...

A warning for the future

Even though a 90 per cent plus vote bodes well for investors, the Franklin affair raises some troubling questions for the future

Your timing temptation

Investors can hear the clock ticking and are striving to time a perfect exit from the booming equity market. Don't make this mistake.

The capital-gains tax should be indexable

The unavailability of cost-indexing for gains made on equity-based investments is an avoidable inconsistency in the tax system

No Alibaba, just the forty thieves

The Alibaba story appears to be taking a turn that we had warned against at the time of its strange IPO six years ago

How to be a billionaire

A thousand here and a thousand there and pretty soon you're talking about real money

The 10 per cent tax hit

This is the first year that meaningful tax harvesting is possible on the long-term capital-gains tax on equity holdings. Is it worth it?

These highs are not highs

Equity markets are suddenly hitting a series of all-time highs and some investors are getting spooked

Say hello to index investing?

Has the long-awaited moment of index investing finally arrived for Indian equity investors?

Getting the wrong message

COVID and related events caught most investors unawares. That does not mean that reacting to every event is important.

Is gold really golden?

Savers need to be clear about what gold is, and what it is not

Mutual fund investors harming their own interests?

There's a lot of bad advice around that's targeted at investors in Franklin Templeton's shuttered debt funds

Are my investments safe?

The Karvy scandal raises the obvious in the minds of many investors. Mutual funds have the right answer

Just do the simple stuff

Keeping your investments simple means that you always understand what is happening and what you must do when things go wrong

The retirement crisis

Post-retirement investment management and income generation is still the hardest problem in personal finance, but it needn't be

The times won't change back

There was a certain golden period of equity fund investing and investors need to come to terms with its end

Expanding one's circle of competence

An interview with the 96-year-old Charlie Munger tells us much about the mindset of a successful investor

Much more than a reboot

Nowadays, the word 'reboot' is often used even for minor changes in products and services. The new Value Research Online is far more than that-now, and far into the future

Investing is simpl(icity)

Simplicity sounds like a simple concept, but it's hard to achieve. The rewards are great.

Not by technique alone

Following the right processes is important for investing success, but hardly enough

It's not yet time for index funds

It's useful to periodically enquire whether it's time to switch to index funds because the answer is a moving target

Ignore the anti-SIP propaganda

Seeing too many articles with clickbait headlines about problems with SIP? Understand what's happening

An old question

Convinced about equity but puzzled by which route? Here's the answer.

How to actually earn a regular income from mutual funds

With interest rates unlikely to head upward anytime soon, retirees need to get out of the FD mindset

Bitcoin lure

The mania is even more powerful this time around, but Bitcoin is just as avoidable

SIP maths vs psychology

Unlike many other walks of life, psychology beats maths hands down when it comes to investing

The fund riskometer becomes active and relevant

Mutual fund investors now have a very useful tool which will track the risk level of each fund

A learning experience

Aggregate money flows in and out of mutual funds don't actually mean what they appear to

Making the right choice

Most Indian savers need to re-examine their fixed-income investment choices - the sooner, the better

Expecting the unexpected

There will be many surprises ahead, and many of them will be negative surprises