rediff: Personal Finance

• Investment norms to ease for foreign firms -
  To further simplify the foreign investment regime, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion proposes to ease investment norms for foreign companies that have existing joint ventures or technical collaborations in India.

• Infy BPO to hire 550, to up investment in Poland -
  "The company currently employees 950 people, atleast in next twelve months, we should get to a level of around 1,500," Infosys BPO managing director and chief executive officer Dandapani Swaminathan told PTI.

• Investing in gold? Read this first -
  India is crazy about gold jewellery. With the World Gold Council aggressively marketing social and religious functions as gold buying events, the demand has shot up in the recent years to record levels.

• ETF strategies to protect your investments -
  Experts say the worst is over for the global economic markets but the markets don't seem to fully agree as they still fluctuate and remain unpredictable.

• Cashless mediclaim: Pvt insurers to adopt PSU rate -
  By packaging rates and stabilising costs, insurers expect to cut expenses.

• Which is the best credit card for you? -
  A credit card offers convenience and safety along with well packaged privileges and benefits. Here is an overview of various credit card types offered by banks.

• Know more about these tax deductions -
  Would you like to save some tax money? Have you made use of all the tax deductions that the law provides? There may be eligible deductions in many of the expenses that you incur.

• What the new tax code unfolds for the taxpayers -
  The revised draft of DTC has proposed some major changes for the taxpayers. However, the changes in the revised draft are far from being the bold changes envisaged in the earlier draft.

• Gujarat aims to tap Canadian investors -
  Canadian investors have been invited to participate in the fifth biennial 'Vibrant Gujarat' summit, a global investors' meet organised by Gujarat, on January 12 and 13 next year.

• Irregular income? Here's what you should do -
  Professionals with erratic incomes need to make lump sum decisions in terms of buying insurance and investing.

• Email investors after every transaction: Sebi -
  Brokerages will soon have to send the brief details of every transaction in an investor's account to his email address.

• 7 common investing mistakes you MUST avoid -
  Here's a list of the seven common investing mistakes that you should avoid at any cost.

• China emerges as fifth largest global investor -
  China which recently emerged as the world's second largest economy has now become the fifth biggest global investor even as Foreign Direct Investment into the country is set to cross $100 billion this year.

• Trustees' decision final on PF investments -
  There are differences between the ministries of labour and finance on the issue.

• 'SIP is best option for small investors' -
  Motilal Oswal, chairman and managing director, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, outlines an equity market strategy for retail investors.