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What's The Best Age To Invest Into Real Estate?

If you're looking to make a leveraged investment, and have the cash flows to do so, start off in your 30's and have maintain an investment time horizon of a decade, for best results. If you're looking to buy as an end user, there's no real 'ideal' age

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LIC Must Pare ITC, L&T Stakes To Below 15% By December 2018: IRDAI

These two are considered as non-strategic investments for LIC. While LIC holds 16.29 per cent stake in ITC, it holds 17.97 per cent stake in L&T as of end June

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Options for Post-Retirement Income Generation

If you’re recently retired with no reliable future income stream in sight other than the ones you’re going to generate from your accumulated investments, you’re probably familiar with the sense of confusion that can abound during this time. Should you stick 100% to risk free assets? Should you only invest into bank deposits? Are Life Insurance policies the way to go? Should you deplete your corpus or aim to keep it constant as the years roll by? These are just a few of the questions that could be passing through your mind right now.

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Canara Bank Hits Overseas Bond Market With $400 Million Issue

Foreign rating agency Moody's has assigned a Baa3 rating to the issue, which is on par with the sovereign rating since the bank is majority owned by the government

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Should You Opt For The Growth, Or Dividend Payout Option?

The basic structure of an MIP can be replicated in a far more tax efficient manner by artificially creating a portfolio with a 25:75 asset allocation in favour of debt funds

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Banks May Need 20% Incremental Provisioning For 50 Large NPAs

These 50 large accounts are from the sectors such as construction, power and metals, among others and constitute about half of the gross non-performing assets of the banking sector

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State Bank Of India To Raise Rs 2,000 Crore

SBI said the bonds will carry a coupon rate of 8.15 per cent per annum with a call option after 5 years or the anniversary date thereafter

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RBI Cuts Repo Rate By 25 bps: Here Are The Key Personal Finance Takeaways

We can expect range bound yields in the medium term, coupled with a small reduction in home loan rates. Deposit rates may fall slightly as well. In the short term, our bond markets will be keeping a close eye on inflation trends and monetary policy moves in the US and EU

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