Coronavirus or Covid-19 originated in Wuhan couple of months ago. However,  it reached viral proportions this week on Wall Street — and literally throughout the world. Cases of the illness have stabilized in China, but its spread outside the country, to nearly 80 countries in total, is what may have truly injected uneasiness into the global stock markets.

How to play the current markets under such uncertain times? What is the right thing to do keeping in mind a long term investment horizon? We believe that the answer lies in the following famous Warren Buffet quote:  "Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy, Be Greedy When Others Are Fearful" .

Time and again, investors have been lured by high return potential of small-cap companies. This is because smaller companies have potential to give very high returns in a very short duration of time. There are instances when a small-cap company has given more than 10x returns within one year of time. Such huge returns are unheard of in any other segment of stock markets, viz. Large and Mid size companies. 

With such a high return potential also comes the risk of losing your capital. One of the best ways to reduce this investment risk is to time your entry. Though difficult, timing is not impossible. This article gives our in-depth analysis of how to make use of the current opportunity in the small-cap space...

MorningStar which is the world's leading investment research company, conducts an annual investment conference in Mumbai. In the conference it invites top financial advisers and research analysts across the globe. We at FinAtoZ got an opportunity to attend this year's event on 28th Oct, 2018. This article contains the gist of what we learnt.

Provident Fund is one of the safest and most tax efficient investment option while you are working. However, once you retire, you get a large amount of money from your Provident Fund and other retirement benefits like Gratuity, Superannuation Voluntary Retirement Fund etc.

Often it becomes a very difficult choice for a retired person to figure out where to invest such a large amount. This article is our attempt to help you understand what are the best possible avenues to invest your provident fund and other retirement proceeds.

Though not a popular belief, investment in Real Estate is a very risky affair. It not only sucks up a significant portion of your life's savings, the money may not be available to you when you need it the most!!