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Best Tax Saving Fixed Deposit Rates U/S 80C – March 2013

Its last month of the Financial Year and in case you have not yet invested completely for your 1 Lakh Tax exemption u/s 80C and looking for Tax Saving Fixed Deposit (FD) Schemes, here is the list of top 30 banks with their Interest Rates. The best Tax Saving Fixed Deposit Interest offered is 9.50% [...]

Best Long Term Bank Fixed Deposit Rates – Jan 2013

With rates cut announced by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) yesterday, its good idea to lock investments in long term bank fixed deposit schemes. The table below shows the best bank fixed deposit rates for tenure of 5 years or more and the maturity amount for Rs 1 Lakh for General Public. Senior citizens can [...]

Renting Bank Lockers: Charges, Guidelines and Alternatives

Bank lockers have always been considered a safe and preferred place to store jewels, stock certificates, deeds and other valuables. While most banks offer such a facility, the locker size, annual rent, deposit required, time period and provision for refund differs for various banks. As you can see in the table below Private Banks like HSBC charge [...]

Which is the Best Credit Card in India?

In a recent survey named “The Total Customer Satisfaction Survey” by MaRs in association with the Hindustan Times, American Express turned out to be the best credit card in terms of customer satisfaction. The survey, carried out in 12 cities across India, reflects the responses of just under 3,000 credit card holders who rated their [...]

12 Changes in 2012 that impacts your Investment

Today is the last day of 2012 and thanks to SEBI, RBI, and Finance Ministry among others which made some significant changes in your personal finance and investment. I have listed 12 of them. 1. One Scheme One Plan for Mutual Funds: Mutual Funds till now had multiple version of the same scheme – one [...]

Stocks to Invest in 2013

Sensex and Nifty has been the third best performing Index after after Thailand’s SET and Germany’s DAX. FIIs too have pumped about $23 Billion till date in this year. Most experts believe that the next calendar year, 2013, does hold promise with the equity segment witnessing an increased retail participation, which inturn, may push the Sensex [...]

Can Tax Saving Fixed Deposit be done Online in SBI?

After I published the Best Tax Saving Fixed Deposit Options, I got several queries regarding if this Tax Saving fixed deposit can be done online in SBI? Fortunately I have an account with SBI and tried doing it myself. Though SBI offers facility of opening Fixed Deposit and Recurring Deposit Online but for SBI Tax [...]

Top Tax Saving Fixed Deposit Schemes

Tax Saving Fixed Deposit under Section 80C of Income tax is a popular and safe instrument for Tax saving. You can invest maximum of Rs. 1 Lacs in the same. Below is the list of banks and their respective interest rates offer for general and senior citizens for their Tax Saving FDs. The best Tax [...]

Top 10 Highest Paid Female Executives in India for FY 2011-12

Below is the list of Top 10 Highest Paid Female Executives in India for FY 2011-12. These pay packages include salary, perquisites, profit- linked incentives or commissions and other benefits. Rupa Gurunath Annual Compensation: Rs. 3.9 Crores Company: India Cements Designation: Whole Time Director Arathi Krishna Annual Compensation: Rs. 4 Crores Company: Sundram Fasteners Designation: Joint Mananging Director Chanda Kochhar Annual [...]

How much Home Loan am I eligible for?

What is the maximum Home Loan can I get? This is one question which is asked time and again by anyone who wants to get into real estate. Till now the only answer you got was it depends on your take home salary, your age, kind of job, your assets among other factors. But thankfully [...]

SBI offers lowest Home Loan Rates

India’s largest bank – State bank of India (SBI) had recently cut its Home Loan rates. This is lowest home loan rate in the market as of today. The new Home Loan rates are effective from August 7, 2012. The rate of interest is 10.25% for Home loan up to Rs. 30 Lacs and 10.40% [...]

Tax Saving Fixed Deposit (FD) u/s 80C – Interest Rates

Tax Saving Fixed Deposit under Section 80C of Income tax is a popular and safe instrument for Tax saving. You can invest maximum of Rs. 1 Lacs in the same. Below is the list of banks and their respective interest rates offer for general and senior citizens for their Tax Saving FDs. The best Tax Saving [...]

Best Bank Fixed Deposit Rates – August 2012

Below is the list of top banks Term Deposit or fixed deposit (FD) rates for tenure of 6 Months – 1 Year, 1 – 2 Years, 2 – 3 Years, 3 – 5 Years and more than 5 years as of August 3, 2012. The best fixed deposit rates for 6 months to less than [...]

Best Bank Fixed Deposit Rates – April 2012

Below is the list of top banks Term Deposit or fixed deposit (FD) rates for tenure of 6 Months – 1 Year, 1 – 2 Years, 2 – 3 Years, 3 – 5 Years and more than 5 years. The best fixed deposit rates for 6 months to less than a year is offered by Corporation Bank at 9.75% [...]

Best Home Loan Rates – April 2012

Below is the list of Home Loan providers with the monthly EMI one needs to pay on the home loan of Rs. 1 Lakh. The lowest Home loan is provided by SBI and ICICI Bank for all Home Loan tenure. The best home loans have been highlighted. Home loan EMI per Rs. 1 lakh for [...]

ICICI Bank Introduces New Savings Account Charges

Following the footsteps of HDFC Bank, India’s largest private sector lender, ICICI Bank, has increased service charges on savings bank accounts and has also imposed a fee on mobile transfers. Starting April 2012, ICICI Bank will charge a penalty of Rs 350 for non-maintenance of a minimum monthly balance. The bank earlier charged Rs 750 [...]

The advantage of being Woman – Financially!

There are advantages of being a woman – both financially and other wise. But this post focuses on the advantages the women have in the financial world. Income Tax Benefit: Under the current tax regime, women pay less tax than men. For the present financial year (2011 – 12), the tax exemption limit for women [...]

SBI Send Cash In A Flash – SBI’s new Money Transfer System

State bank of India (SBI) in association with MasterCard MoneySend Card to Card Service has launched “Send Cash in a Flash” Money Transfer Mechanism. This service seems to be pretty innovative and simple. Below are the highlights of the service: The service is available to all State group bank account holders The money transfer is [...]

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