Gold
Mutual funds, stocks, NPS, PPF, gold, and complete tax planning — data-driven guides to build long-term wealth and minimise your tax outgo.
Gold ETF vs SGB vs Physical Gold: The Complete 2026 Comparison — SGBs earn 2.5% annual interest and exit completely tax-free at 8-year maturity. Gold ETFs have no lock-in and 0% GST. Physical gold loses 3%+ immediately to GST. Here is which form actually delivers.
Sovereign Gold Bonds 2026: How to Buy, Tax Benefits, and What to Do When No New Tranche Is Open — The RBI has not announced any new SGB tranche for FY 2026-27, but existing bonds still trade on NSE and BSE. Here is how to buy on the secondary market, what the tax rules are, and whether SGBs still beat Gold ETFs.
Digital Gold vs Gold ETF vs SGB 2026: The One With No Regulator, and What That Means for Your Money — Buying gold on Paytm or PhonePe for as little as ₹1 feels like the easiest way to invest in the metal — but digital gold sits outside RBI, SEBI, and IRDAI's regulatory net entirely, unlike the Gold ETF or SGB it's often compared against. Here's exactly what that gap means for your storage, exit, and tax outcomes.
Silver ETF India 2026: How to Invest, Tax Rules, and Is It Better Than Gold Right Now — Silver jumped from ₹95,700/kg in 2024 to over ₹1.70 lakh/kg by October 2025 — driven by industrial demand from solar panels and EVs, not the usual monetary-hedge story that moves gold. Silver ETFs let you own that move through a demat account. Here is how they work, which funds to compare, and a tax rule most investors get wrong.
Sovereign Gold Bond Maturity 2026: What Actually Happens When Your SGB Turns 8 — Eight years after the first 2018 tranches were issued, SGBs are now maturing on their own — no application, no exit paperwork, nothing to sell. Here's exactly how RBI prices the redemption, when the money lands in your account, and the one tax question 2026 has opened up for anyone who bought their bond second-hand.
Gold Mutual Fund vs Gold ETF for SIP Investors 2026: The One Difference That Decides Which You Can Actually Buy — Every gold-investing comparison covers tax and liquidity — almost none mentions that a Gold ETF can't run a real SIP the way an equity mutual fund can. If you don't already have a demat account, or want a fixed monthly gold SIP on autopilot, that single structural difference decides which product you can even buy — and it comes with a cost trade-off most investors never check.