India and Australia are tied. As the Australian player steps up, Kabir Khan watches her feet and stick and signals his goalkeeper: “Don’t move! Stay put!”. The keeper holds her ground, stays per...
Yet this progress masks two deep and related failures: a poorly functioning home loan market and a fragile retirement savings system. A glance at household balance sheets reveals the cracks. Wealth, e...
More than 71 million Americans, including retirees, disabled workers, survivors, and low-income seniors, rely on the payments from Social Security, which acts as a financial backbone for them. It is a...
I plan to retire in October 2027 with a retirement corpus of about ₹1.50 crore spread across mutual funds, ULIPs, stocks, debt instruments, fixed deposits, and gold. I have an outstanding home loan of...
Bond yields have hardened after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left policy rates unchanged and refrained from announcing fresh liquidity measures in its latest monetary policy meeting. Market partici...
US tax filing update: Millions of US citizens are preparing to file their 2025 federal income tax returns as the 2026 tax filing season is in full swing the country. As the 2026 tax filing season come...
Deposits are crucial for any bank, as these are further given out as loans. Hence, it is important that a depositor feels confident about the money deposited with the bank. For this, the Deposit Insur...
At first glance, this appears to be a success story. Premiums are lower, enrolment is effortless, and coverage is seamlessly bundled with employment, loans or memberships. But a deeper look raises an ...
True long-term wealth, however, rarely depends on tax tweaks or daily headlines. Mint spoke with Kalpen Parekh, managing director and chief executive officer of DSP Mutual Fund, about the discipline o...
First, the children’s education allowance exemption is to be increased sharply from a token ₹100 per month per child to ₹3,000 per month per child. Second, the hostel expenditure allowance exemption i...