Two mutual funds are launching Gold ETFs. They are electronic financial products unlike gold, which is a physical product. It needs to be judged by four key factors. How does it stack up?

UTI and Benchmark Asset Management are both launching gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs). It is a new asset class and it is important to understand the pluses and minuses of the product before you venture...

Is your “long-term investment” just another form of speculation, asks Debashis Basu

You buy an apartment or a house to live in or to rent it out and earn some income. It may give you great pleasure to check about the resale value from time to time but you have not bought the house to flip it over in a hot property market. (If you tried to do that in 1992, you made a bad investment. Over the...