When is a good time to prepay or part prepay a home loan? When you think about the above question, the next question that comes to mind is how do you define a “good time”. One of the ways to assess this could be the number of EMIs saved due to your prepayment. Let’s understand this with… Continue Reading
In many of our earlier posts, we have considered big ticket loans (car loans, home loans etc). However, those starting their professional careers or those who have just stepped out of college may not really be looking for such big-ticket loans. They may be looking for much smaller loans to purchase products for lifestyle, convenience… Continue Reading
In this post, let’s look at a few education loan products from Punjab National Bank. We will compare four education loan products from PNB. PNB Saraswati (For higher education in India) PNB Pratibha (For admission to premier institutes such as IITs/IIMs/AIIMS) PNB Udaan (For higher education abroad) PNB Kaushal (For pursuing vocational education and training)… Continue Reading
We have discussed several ways of raising funds in times of need. We have talked about many other ways of raising quick funds such salary loans, personal loans, gold loans, loan against securities or mutual funds. In this post, let’s look at another way of raising funds in times of need — Loan Against Car. I am not… Continue Reading
A Reverse Mortgage Loan (RML) can provide a useful income stream for senior citizens during their retirement. You can monetize your residential property and generate income while continuing to retain the ownership so long as you are alive. I have discussed Reverse Mortgage loans in detail in another post. In this post, I will look… Continue Reading
It is not very difficult to get a personal loan if you are a salaried employee. Not so easy for others. There are professionals who started their practice a few years back and need a loan to expand their practice, redo their office or anything else. For such professionals, there are specific loan products to… Continue Reading
For many of us, achieving our dream of owning a car may require some financial assistance in the form of a car loan. And when it comes to loans, no other bank evokes as much trust as the State Bank of India. In this post, we will look at various car loan products from SBI.… Continue Reading
In this post, we will discuss a personal loan product from State Bank of India, SBI Xpress Power loan (formerly known as SBI Xpress Bandhan). By the way, this is not the first time I am writing about a personal loan product from SBI stable. In my earlier posts, I have discussed two personal loan… Continue Reading
Bajaj Finserv EMI Card is a unique product where your purchase amount is automatically converted into EMIs. You can think of the product structure as a pre-approved loan. You can swipe or use the card (where the card is accepted) and the purchase amount will automatically be converted into EMIs. The attractive part is that… Continue Reading
SBI has increased its MCLR (Marginal Cost of Funds based lending rate) multiple times (1, 2, 3) in the recent months. MCLR is the benchmark for floating rate loans. Therefore, if you have borrowed from SBI, your loan interest rate would have already gone up in the recent months. Never a happy situation for the… Continue Reading