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July 17, 2011 4 Comments
Your Credit Information Bureau (Cibil) credit information report (CIR), other than your income, is the single most important tool used by a lender to evaluate your application for any loan or credit card application. So, it’s important to understand how to improve your CIR, so that it is viewed favourably by lenders .Here are some basic rules to improve your CIR: Read more of this post
July 17, 2011 11 Comments
If you have just bought your CIBIL credit report and need some help understanding it or if you are considering forking out for one and want to know what you will get,the following write up is for you:
Here is the information found on a CIBIL CIR:
Payment history
Days Past Due (DPD) appears in the account(s) section of your CIR. It appears with one other piece of information — the month and year of payment. DPD indicates by how many days a payment on that account is late that month. Anything other than ‘000’ is considered negative by a lender. Up to 36 months of this payment history (with the most recent month displayed first) are provided in this section. Read more of this post
July 13, 2011 6 Comments
Here is a power point presentation dating from Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s 11 Aug 2007 meeting with IIT -Mumbai students.I happened to find it by chance today.And it’s still worth a read.When you have a spare 15 minutes do flip through the presentation.
July 11, 2011 3 Comments
MIPs are hybrid debtoriented mutual fund products.They are great places to park money if you have a 2-3 year horizon.The majority of the money in this case is invested in debt and the NAVs fall when the interest rates rise.Currently the equity markets are showing some weakness and the interest rates are high,so MIP NAVs are low.So its a good time to pick up MIPs .HDFC and Reliance are 2 fund houses that are known for their treasury management operations.And HDFC and Birla Sun Life MIPs have perfomed well due to superior management of the equity component.
Here is a video that walks you through the ABCs of MIPs:
July 10, 2011 3 Comments
Here is a video laying out the pros and cons of investing in liquid and liquid plus funds vs FDs.Where you invest will depend on the guarantees you seek,the amount you wish to deposit,the interest rate scenario in future,prevailing interest rates,tax liabilities,the use you wish to put your cash to in future etc.Do watch the video before you decide either way.
Personally I have found that sometimes you get short term FDs that offer better rates for senior citizens than the mutual funds.And the most important takeaway from the video is that FDs can be used to lock in high rates in a falling interest rate scenario.
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