In further making the operations of stock markets simple for you, Team FirstStep Solutions tells you, among other things, how to buy and sell shares in this era of screen-based trading. Help yourself…
The recent see-saws on world stock exchanges may have given you some idea of how fortunes change in the blink of an eye. Our experts at Team FirstStep Solutions offer insights on how to play the share market. But, of course, first things first…. .
Though they may mainly appeal to those with a strong risk appetite, Fixed Maturity Plans have lots going for them, say experts at Team FirstStep Solutions.
This is the time to invest in silver, which apparently bids fair to replace gold as the “most precious metal” in the coming years, advises the expert team of FirstStep Solutions
Silver is out-glittering the yellow metal. How to make the most of an impending silver rush!
How best to invest in stocks without getting your hard-earned money locked up and depriving you of interest on that money.
We saw in in insurance++ in theJanuary 2011 issue of Premium, the power of compound interest and the ingenuity of the inventor of the chess game. He asked for one grain of wheat per square of the chess board, two for the second square and so on,a gift the king realised was impossible over several lifetimes! Let us take an example that you could be seeing every day of your life in this, the February 2011 issue.
Insurance++, FirstStep Solutions Pvt Ltd, Albert Einstein (the Nobel laureate who developed the theory of relativity) is supposed to have said “the most powerful force in the universe is Compound Interest”. The theory of compounding was talked upon only as late as 1983, and Einstein died in 1955. Perhaps the purpose of crediting Einstein with this statement is only to emphasise the importance of compounding.
In the past few years, gold prices have gone up astronomically. A person may have bought just a few grams of gold jewellery, but claims to have made a killing in the market. True?
But the facts are different. As on October 31, 2010, the returns over one year in show that you would have got the higest rate of return of 27 per cent if you had invested in silver!
This month in insurance ++ we will see what investments in Gold and Gold Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are all about.
Team FirstStep Solutions In the previous instalment of insurance++ (Mutual Funds: The Best Options, Premium, September, 2010, page 34) we saw that a mutual fund investor had three options: ? Dividend Payout Option ? Dividend Reinvestment Option ? Growth Option We also saw how Growth Option would be useful to most investors. Why Dividend Reinvestment [...]
