Your pressures at your work place may be tight enough to leave you with little spare time to worry about how to create a second stream of income. That is when you have to make money work hard for you. Let us look at two such approaches.

The concept of future planning is changing from saving your salary to investing your salary. When you receive your salary, you obviously have some fixed commitments.

Capital gains on debt funds were classified as long term if they were held for a period of more than 1 year. But first, what is this FMP all about?

These are the kinds of stories that look like fairy tales but then they are absolutely real. At the same time there are equity mutual funds that can help you generate huge wealth if you systematically do an SIP for a period of 20-25 years.

A Fixed Maturity Plan (FMP) is a closed-ended fund that invests predominantly in debt instruments. Since it is a closed ended fund, it is able to invest in instruments that precisely match with the tenure of the FMP in terms of asset maturity.

The earlier you start retirement planning, the longer you save. Thus your corpus will earn returns for a longer period and the returns on the corpus will also generate more returns.

Is it possible to convert an investment of Rs.15,000 invested per month into Rs.1 crore in 3 years. Theoretically, the answer is yes; practically the answer is No.

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