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Fixed Deposit: Learning How to Value a Fixed Deposit (FD) is a Lesson of Lifetime

We all know what is a fixed deposit, right? Many consider it as an investment option. But I personally prefer to refer to and use it as a convenient savings option. ‘Term deposit’ and ‘bank deposit’ are few other names of fixed deposits. What is ‘fixed’ in a fixed deposit? The tenure of the deposit….

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The Concept of Multibagger Stocks: How we can benefit from it? [Calculator]

Recently I was reading a book written by Peter Lynch (One Up on Wall Street). It talked about a concept called “multibagger stocks“. We all know what are multibagger stocks, right? Most of us have even use this as a phrase casually to refer to “quick return stocks”. But multibaggers are far for it. [Check…

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Car Affordability: How Much To Spend on a Car Based On Salary [Calculator]

Car Affordability Calculator Just enter your monthly income & loan in the data entry fields, the calculator will do the affordability calculations on its own. Remarks Net Salary (Rs/month) This value should be the average “MONTHLY SALARY” credited in your bank account in Last 12 months. This is not your CTC. If you are entering…

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Financial Ratio Analysis: How to interpret ratios to analyse a company?

[This article comes in a series of articles written about the fundamental analysis]. People who are interested in long term investing in stocks knows about financial ratio analysis. If you have heard about terms like price to earning ratio, price to book value ratio etc, you know ratios. But in this financial ratio analysis we…

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Dosa Economics: How Falling Interest Rates on Deposits is not always bad?

The Dosa Economics of Raghuram Rajan explains the negative impact of high inflation on our purchasing power. But we already know that high inflation is bad, right? So why the RBI Governor had to coin the concept of Dosa Economics? Both, ‘high’ and ‘very-low’ inflation is bad for the overall economy and also for our pockets. Hence Reserve…

Direct Plan: Difference between Regular and Direct Plans of Mutual Funds

There is a need for people to know about direct plan offered by mutual fund companies. What is the need? In good old days, mutual fund schemes could be sold to investors only through agents and distributors. Reason being, lack of penetration of internet into the Indian households, hence negligible online transactions. But today we…

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Residual Income Method: A great way to estimate intrinsic value of companies

Residual income method is a unique and a comparatively easier way to estimate intrinsic value of companies. What makes it unique is the factor called “residual income“. I’m a big fan of valuing companies using discounted cash flow method (DCF). Why? Because if done accurately, its computed intrinsic value can be very accurate. But its…

Net Asset Value (NAV) Concept: How we can use it to build our own investment portfolio?

Why I got interested in the concept of Net Asset Value (NAV)? Because it helped me to see my portfolio-building from the eyes of a mutual fund manager. Generally, I build my savings under several heads (like saving#1, saving#2 etc). Overtime, savings keeps accumulating under each head. When it becomes sufficiently large, I use a…

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Authorised Capital: How it is different from Paid-up capital?

‘Authorised Share Capital’ and ‘Paid Up Share Capital’ are two terms that we as investors must know about. Why? Because changes in the numbers of these metrics can effect our investment returns (read here). Company needs capital to establish its assets and run its operations. From where the company will source its capital? It can…