Author: Reshmi Roy

Passive investment, both through ETFs and index funds, has been very slowly gaining ground due to low cost and reduced need to manage the portfolio. It is now time to take a giant leap. Need for passive funds You need passive equity funds as part of your portfolio for several reasons. In the past 3-5 years, large-cap and multi-cap funds have found it increasingly hard to beat their benchmarks. Fewer funds beat the index now than a few years ago. To illustrate, in 2017 — based on rolling 3-year returns then, almost 8 in 10 large-cap funds beat large-cap benchmarks…

New updated scanners from Bureau of Civil Aviation Security(BCAS) will let pasengers zip through airports without removing laptops for screening that is to be deployed in Inidian airports very soon. The long queues of air travellers removing their laptops, mobile phones and chargers from their cabin baggage before screening them could soon become history in India. The aviation security regulator, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), is expected to issue technical norms within a month which will pave the way for airports to adopt modern equipment to screen bags without removing electronic devices. “All airports, including Delhi airport, need to…

Dutch PM Mark Rutte apologised Monday on behalf of his government for the Netherlands historical role in slavery , despite calls for him to delay the long-awaited statement. “Today I apologise,” Mr.Rutte said in a 20-minute speech that was greeted with silence by an invited audience at the National Archive. Mr.Rutte went ahead with the apology even though some activist groups in the Netherlands and its former colonies had urged him to wait until July of next year, the anniversary of the abolition of slavery 160 years ago. Activists consider next year the 150th anniversary because many enslaved people were…

After thirteen years since his last directorial ,Avatar released in 2009 – highest grossing film in history- more than $2.8 billion in global box office etc, James Cameron returns with the sequel Avatar 2, an another sci-fi saga . Avatar: The way of water Actor Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana reprise their iconic character as Jake sully and Neytiri from the first film, now playing loving parents who have lived a peaceful life for more than a decade with the Omatikaya clan.Their utopia is suddenly threatened yet again by human forces, they are forced to travel over pandora and flee…

When you are looking for alternate investments opportunities other than mutual funds, stocks, gold etc , property investment is an ideal candidate. Especially the homes that we can reach out during vacation. There is a belief that vacation homes are the luxuries for the rich and famous. In the other ways its kind of perfect escape from the monotonous and taxing city life. With each year passing, the quality of lives are improving and the throwaway incomes are as well increasing, so that we can afford these kind of luxuries that will not only be ideal for investment but also…