High Dividend Stocks as an Investment Strategy

Champion investors love dividend paying stocks. They love the feel of passive income and positive cash flow. What about you? Do you love the feeling of tax free dividend income making its way right into your bank account while your stocks continue to do well?

Investing in high dividend stocks is a great long term investment strategy, but it is always better to understand its pros and cons.

Ready to invest? Then find out what are the best high dividend stocks to invest in...
Read on..

Dividend Stripping Strategy

Do you know that Dividend stripping is an investing strategy that can potentially save you a lot of money? If you invest in Mutual Funds or Stocks, understanding this strategy can be quite a handful to get that extra advantage...Read on...

Stocks vs Mutual Funds

Most of us feel that investing in direct company stocks is risky. Of course, it is. But so is investing in mutual funds, for the simple reason that mutual funds also invest in company stocks. You may feel that mutual funds is still safer because of the expertise that the fund house has as regards fund management and detailed analytical reports, but then remember that rewards are always in proportion to the risk. Let us do a pointwise analysis of Mutual Funds and Stocks...read on...

Your EPF money will be invested in equity : Rebalance your portfolio

Not that you have any choice, but you should be aware that your corpus of Employee Provident Fund(EPF) (+VPF) which you have been accumulating over many years, is now going to be exposed to equity market. This move has its own merits and demerits. You must understand what's happening to your money, and you may also need to rebalance your portfolio to the extent of your money movement from a debt based investment (EPF) to equity based investment...read on...

10 most common Mutual Fund Myths

Mutual Funds are just the right solution for investors ready to take reasonable risk and do not have time to analyse and dissect organisation data. Each one of us will probably touch Mutual Funds at some point of our financial investment cycle. Here are the 10 most common myths surrounding Mutual Funds that you must be aware of .. read on...

What is Securities Transaction Tax (STT)

Did you know that with every mutual fund or stock transaction, a TDS is being deducted by the government (by the name of Securities Transaction Tax or STT) and you may just be missing on asking for the refund. Let us understand more about STT.

Save Taxes on Capital Gains

Capital Gains are different from money gains. These are the biggest gains that you would ever earn in your life. Understand how to get smarter with capital gains and saving taxes arising out of such gains.. Read More.

What is Dividend Distribution Tax for AY 2014-15

Understanding that the Dividends paid to you are not "actually" tax free and attract hidden taxes, you can take much more informed decisions when it comes to investing for Dividend based Income. Let us understand what is Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) and how does this understanding can help us...Read on..

What are Blue Chip Companies and how are they selected

I used to hear the term "Blue Chip companies" since i was a child, but it is only during the journey of financial freedom that i had enough craving to dig deeper into why these are termed as blue chip companies, what these companies are, and how are they selected.

What are Large, Mid and Small Cap Funds

We keep hearing terms like large-cap, small-cap and wonder what type of stocks we should own and what these terms really mean? How does someone calculate whether a company is a large-cap or mid-cap? With so many people having such questions in mind, i thought of sharing this post with you.

Dividend Payout Ratio and Dividend Yield

Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, that money can be put to two uses: it can either be re-invested in the business (called retained earnings), or it can be distributed to shareholders. 

What is a Stock Split

In our recent post, we studied about the Bonus Issue.

To summarize, what we read
Share-holders get bonus shares from company's earnings in compensation of dividend. But we also realized that the overall wealth of the shareholder does not increase because of the drop in share price post the bonus issue.

Most readers seem to have some confusion about whether bonus issue and stock splits are the same or not.  They may appear to be the same especially in the eyes of a person not well-versed in finance. But they are, in fact, two different things.

What is a Bonus Issue?

Stocks reward you in many ways. Apart from the regular interest free dividends and the capital appreciation on the stock value, investments in company shares also fetch you certain non monetary benefits to you. Bonuses and Rights issue are two such noticeable benefits.

Let us understand in detail about the Bonus issue.

You have no choice but to get into Stocks

  

Whether to seriously get into stocks or not - is a very debatable topic, not only with the Indian middle class mindset but also with investors across the globe.

Myths about Stock Market

Traditionally stocks have been associated with huge risks, losses, bankruptcy and many more negative aspects. Rarely, have we heard of stories where someone has consistently made good positive returns from the stock market, beating those from the traditional