The Art of Money by KG

One of the leading private banks in India, ICICI bank is offering a very good option of Flexible Recurring deposit by the name iWish. This is really a great concept and offers a great flexibility to user. Biggest plus point of iWish is use of Goal based saving and use of Social networking to share the goals and wishes with family and friends. User can see their savings as the percentage of goal achieved, this gives an added push for the user to save more and achieve goal. Now the first question, who can open an iWish account? Anyone having a savings account with ICICI bank and having net-banking activated can open a savings account. Process of opening an iWish account 1.     Login to your account using ICICI net-banking.  (http://www.icicibank.com/)       2.     Go to Exclusive offerings à iWish – flexible RD 3.     Click on Start Now and create a new goal Now you are all set to rock and roll. Now comes one more important ques

Types of Bank account in INDIA Dear Friends, There are multiple types of accounts provided by bank which caters to the various needs of the customers. Today we will go through the details and features of such accounts. 1.       Savings Account: ·          This is the most common type of bank account. It is the sophisticated form of the Piggy bank which we all would have used in our childhood. Savings account allows us to withdraw or deposit money multiple times. There are some added facilities like ATM card, Cheque books, Withdrawal forms which help us to do monetary transactions. There are limited numbers of transactions available in savings account. ·          Savings account is generally used to keep our money in a bank. It earns us an interest of 4-6% per year.  Most PSU banks give 4% interest but some private players have made the market better for customers by giving 6 to 7% interest (based on some conditions). ·          Most banks keep a minimum amount

Dear Friend, After successfully creating a corpus of your Emergency fund, it’s a good time to move your focus to the next step. That is, starting to invest a small portion of your money to create a big corpus for your goals. Everyone has different income, expenditure patterns and saving goals. But one thing is constant:   SAVING . In order to achieve your goal, you need to start saving today. Some easiest options to save money for a beginner are: Recurring deposit and Fixed deposits . 1.      Recurring deposits : Popularly known as RD, are the simplest option to start saving a small sum of money today. All the Nationalized or other banks provide this facility to start RD either online or through personally visiting the bank branch. In RD, you give an instruction to the bank to deduct a particular amount of money every month on a chosen date for a chosen period of time. Example to make it more clear: Suppose, Gaurav will need Rs. 20,000/- in next year April for pur