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How to Make Sure You Don’t End Up Broke

qwcdirect — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:29:03 +0000

Financial planning is one of the most significant steps in living these days. It is, indeed most important to follow a pre-set financial schedule to ensure that the future brings along prosperity, affluence and rest, rather than stress, trauma and anxiety to meet up basic monetary needs.

There are more than few financial strategies than make sure you don’t end up broke one day. One of them is Systematic Investment Planning that smartly lets you keep aside an insignificant daily contribution that eventually sums up to be a great financial reserve for years to come.

Investing in one or all of Corporate Securities, Mutual Funds, Simplified Employee’s Pension Schemes and Tax-Saving Investment Plans also help to take a leap towards financial security. The government time and again comes up with various financial tools and schemes that help in social security in financial terms. General awareness makes sure one knows about the recent developments and investment options.

The Importance of Financial Awareness in your Children

qwcdirect — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:27:20 +0000

Many a times, fund managers in a household feel that their financial knowledge is too immature, naïve or not fully formed. There is a difference in something that comes in naturally or something acquired. Children are innocent, naïve and untried. Whatever comes to their mind stays for long and they can adapt to things much easily than adults to.

Finance is a crucial subject and money management is not taught well in schools. Parents can however train their children to manage funds, invest smartly and prepare themselves for financial emergencies and urgent needs. There are some specialized schemes and plans for students in banks, and other financial institutes to make available simplified, more profitable and flexible financial tools to suit the needs of students and help them apprehend the system better.

The importance of financial awareness in children is best known when college going students start managing their expenses at their own, maintaining significant savings along with following wise investment strategies.

Core Banking Solutions

qwcdirect — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:24:01 +0000

Core banking solution refers to the connectivity of the various branches of a particular bank so as to enable anytime-anywhere banking for the customer. In different words it is the facility that the bank gives to its customer to operate transaction from any branch of the bank irrespective of where the customer holds an account. This facility enables a customer to make account enquiries, check debit –credit entries, encash a cheque, deposit a cheque, deposit cash, transfer funds, get drafts etc made from any of the branches in the core banking solution network.

The core banking solution translated into a world class banking experience to the customer by easy accessibility and time saving. It also enables a bank to have a better customer interaction interface which enable officers in the branch to render better quality services to their walk in customers. Core Banking Solutions also enables banks to provide other services like enhanced ATM service, bill payments and internet banking.

Role of Collateral Managers in Trade Finance

qwcdirect — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:22:42 +0000

Collateral Management refers to the management of the collateral assets that the bank mortgage to secure loans to the individuals and institutions. The collateral manager is the individual who has the skill required to mediate between the borrower and the lender and takes the security of the asset which is up as collateral. Use of a collateral manager by the lending institutions ensure that the assets which have been mortgaged by the borrower to secure a loan are mobilized in a fast and correct manner in case of the delinquency in performance by the borrower.

Thus the role of the collateral manager involves the obligation in making the borrower understand the risk borne by the lender in securing the loan and the need for regular repayment, to secure the asset being held as a collateral, assignment of the asset to a suitable warehouse and issuing warehouse receipts, insurance of the secured asset and finally timely mobilization and sale of the asset in case of default to recover losses to the maximum.

5 Pension Performance Questions Answered

qwcdirect — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:20:37 +0000

With the change in the social structure and the resulting financial insecurity more and more people are enrolling themselves into the pension plans. Pension plans not only ensure that you have a steady flow of income once you are done with your employment; these plans also offer a security in case of a financial emergency. Once someone has chosen a pension plan they need to ensure they are updated on its performance regularly as in the end it is their money and future at risk.

The answers to 5 most frequent questions on pension performance are summed up here. Pension fund is the contribution that an individual makes to secure the financial requirements of the time when he is not working. The performance on these funds is the degree of gain these funds are making towards achieving the retirement goals. The pension calculator is the financial tool that enables you to get a fair idea as to how much the pension fund would grow up to at maturity. One can encash the pension funds before time in case of emergency but it usually comes with a penalty clause and finally one can never give an exact figure to the value of pension fund at maturity.