"If you are one of those investors who has not yet started your investment process for retirement planning, you must act now," writes Wiseinvest Advisors CEO Hemant Rustagi.
Consider various aspects relating to tax, rebalancing and time horizon before making a final call.
Equity investors will have a lot to cheer about going forward, too. Of course, as always, there are going to be periods that could test their patience.
Financial planning can help you make informed investment decisions by having an appropriate risk-reward balance in the portfolio.
While it is true that tax efficiency alone can't help you but a tax-aware investment strategy can make a substantial difference to your portfolio's ultimate size.
If you are one of those investors who have been committing investment mistakes, here is how you can avoid them.
Crude oil prices traded higher in the past fortnight although manufacturing growth has faltered in Europe and China at a time of ample supply.
Studies have proved that more than 90 percent of investment success depends upon one's asset allocation and the rest on investment option chosen for each of the asset classes.
For a long-term investor, it is important to review the portfolio composition periodically so that it not only remains on track but also doesn't take him beyond his risk-taking capacity.
It is always recommended that individual investors, who want to build wealth through smaller contributions, should invest through a Systematic Investment Plan (SIP).
The right way to analyse the performance of a fund is to not consider absolute return alone but to compare its performance vis-a-vis the benchmark and the peer group.





