Setting Financial Goals and Budgeting

Travelling to any place would require a pre-requisite knowledge of the destination details. Likewise, when it comes to money, it is very important that one knows where exactly one wants to end up in terms of the amount of money they want to have and the reason they want to have it and to create a budget around it. To do this, one needs to set financial goals to achieve the objectives that one has set. There are basically three types of financial...

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Understanding Payment Banks

Recently India has opened up a new category of Financial Institutions called Payment Banks and it is good to understand them and how they function. A Payments bank is a differentiated bank that will undertake only certain restricted banking functions that the Banking Regulation Act of 1949 allows.It is just like any other bank but operating on a very lower scale without involving any credit risk. In simple words, we can say that the banks which...

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The crippling debt of credit card debts

                             Credit card debt is like bringing back inflation. While using your credit card wisely can help you to build your credit score, misusing your credit cards can actually hurt your credit!!! The young generation has most fallen into the credit card trap. When you spend with cash, you are able to physically see exactly how much you’re spending....

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Reverse Mortgage - Making Money off your home

The reverse mortgage is “a loan agreement in which a homeowner relinquishes equity in their home in exchange for regular payments”. It is similar to a housing loan except that in a housing loan the borrower pays a fixed EMI to the lending bank, while in a reverse mortgage the lender pays the borrower a fixed sum of money on a monthly/quarterly basis, the total payment being equal to the value of the properties and the interest on the amount of loan. After the death of the borrower, the housing company sale the property to recover the amount...

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Insure your Health

It’s 10 in the morning, you are waiting for the call from a doctor’s lab. How about the reports? Positive or negative. You are tensed, deeply worried and then the bell rings. You are suffering from a serious illness. What next- you start thinking about your family, getting admitted and start the treatment, amount of money needed and most important of all- have you secured that much amount of money. The answer would be NO if you do not...

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