The market regulator plans to stipulate a 25% free-float for listed companies. What should you be doing?
 
Market regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) wants to ensure that at least 25% of the share capital of any listed company is held by non-promoters. This move has been in the offing for long and I hope it gets implemented this time. In MMTC, for example, the government...

Financial planning sounds a mouthful but it’s really simple and you can do it yourself – unless you are very rich
 
The so-called financial advisors bombard you with terms like asset allocation. From homilies like ‘your allocation to equities should be 100 minus age’ to ‘dynamic matrix’ et al, you will be submerged with formulae, tables and charts. Then they will give you a questionnaire to...