Things to know before starting your retirement planning

Highlights A good investment can fetch you higher returns and help in reaching your financial milestone. However, it is important to keep in mind that all investments are exposed to some risk, thus measure your risk tolerance and invest ...

Wealth creation, for the most part, is about investing in assets which could generate a decent return over a long period of time. Irrespective of the asset class in question – be it stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate or even comp ...

Highlights A ‘pump and dump’ scheme is a way fraudsters use to manipulate stock markets to artificially inflate the price of a stock and generate illegal profits. Unscrupulous investors use the scheme to create a market fren ...

The Australian share market has witnessed a correction over the past month, falling by 2.4%. The market has slipped over 3% so far in September. The benchmark index even hit its lowest point since May at one point of time in this month. Un ...

Preferred stocks are the little-known answer to the common dividend question, “How does one juice meaningfully 6-7% yields by investing in blue-chip stocks?” Most common blue-chip stocks don’t even pay a 5% yield. Even th ...

Forex market or foreign exchange market deals in changing one currency into another for different reasons, generally for commerce, or trading. It includes a network of buyers and sellers, who transfer currency between each other at an agree ...

Source: © Melpomenem | Megapixl.com While everyone has heard of cryptocurrency at this point, given its meteoric rise in popularity and its penetration into the public consciousness over the last two years, the vast majority of those ...

Highlights A recent study conducted by Purpose and Angus Reid found that about 50 per cent of Canadians above the age of 55 are not sure if they will have sufficient savings for their retirement years. Generally, people tend to be eithe ...

Hedging is a popular investment strategy which is employed to limit risks in financial assets. The risk management strategy also typically results in lowering potential profits. Thus, hedging reduces potential loss but doesn’t maximis ...

Highlights Most of the penny stocks belong to companies with very low-quality business and therefore the supply of their shares outweighs demand, keeping the price generally under a dollar. Penny stocks tend to get manipulated quite eas ...