Investing in India — Layer 1 This guide is part of our Investing in India hub. Most salaried Indians are already retirement investors without thinking about it — the EPF deduction on the payslip sees to that. This guide explains how EPF actually works (including the brand-new EPF Scheme 2026, notified on 29 June 2026),
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Investing in India — Layer 1 This guide is part of our Investing in India hub. India’s small savings schemes are the safest returns in the country — backed directly by the Government of India, no bank in between, no DICGC limit needed. This guide covers PPF, Sukanya Samriddhi, NSC, SCSS, KVP, POMIS, and post
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Investing in India — Layer 1 This guide is part of our Investing in India hub. The fixed deposit is India’s default investment — familiar, guaranteed, and available at every bank branch and app in the country. That familiarity is exactly why it deserves a proper guide: most people who hold FDs have never checked
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Investing in India — Layer 1 This guide is part of our Investing in India hub. Before SIPs, before stocks, before anything with a chart attached — you need a pool of money that is boring, safe, and instantly available. This guide covers how large that pool should be, the four places it can sensibly
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Guaranteed Return Plans This walkthrough sits inside our Insurance in India hub. If you would first like to understand the category, start with what guaranteed return plans actually are and how they sit alongside term versus endowment cover. Here we open up one specific, widely chosen plan — HDFC Life Sanchay Plus — for the
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This article is part of our complete guide to insurance in India. If you’ve read what term insurance is and how much cover you need, this is the next step: how to choose the right term plan and insurer. Where To Start How to choose term insurance plan comes down to a few parameters that
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This article is part of our complete guide to insurance in India. Once you’ve sorted what health insurance is and how to choose a policy, Section 80D is the tax rule that lets the premium you pay also lower your tax bill. Tax law update (October 2026). The Income-tax Act, 2025 replaced the Income-tax Act,
This article is part of our complete guide to insurance in India. Once you know what health insurance is and why you need it, the next question is how to pick a good policy — and that comes down to the fine print most buyers skip. Tax law update (October 2026). The Income-tax Act, 2025
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This article is part of our complete guide to insurance in India. While life insurance protects your family from losing your income, health insurance protects your savings from medical bills — a different job, and an equally essential one. Tax law update (October 2026). The Income-tax Act, 2025 replaced the Income-tax Act, 1961 from 1
This article is part of our complete guide to insurance in India. It follows what a ULIP is and connects to our complete guide to mutual funds — the two sides of this comparison. Tax law update (October 2026). The Income-tax Act, 2025 replaced the Income-tax Act, 1961 from 1 April 2026, renumbering most sections.
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