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Planning your Investments

Before deciding 'where' to invest, it is important to ask 'for what' am I investing. Your stage of life, financial responsibilities, key goals in life and your risk profile are very important aspects to understand before you invest.


  1. Life Stage

    Your life stage will be key in determining the priority of financial goals/events that you need to plan for. For a young and single individual the most important need may...
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  2. Define Key Goals

    So after you have provided for emergencies, it is now important that you define your key goals. At the cost of being repetitive, we'd like to stress the importance of...
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  3. Know Your Risk Profile

    It is very important to first understand your own risk profile before you start investing. You need to check for risk attitude as well as tolerance....
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  4. Define Asset Allocation

    Asset allocation decision is about dividing the investments between asset classes such as equities, cash and money markets equivalents, bonds, insurance, real estate, derivatives. Commodities, antiques and art, international financial...
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  5. Invest and Manage Key Documents

    Now is the key step of investing in avenues based on your goals, risk profile and desired asset allocation. It is equally important to maintain a systematic record of all...
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  6. Take Control of your Money

    To ensure that your money works for you and not the other way around, you need to constantly monitor your investments to ascertain that they are headed in the right...
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