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You should investigate on MERDX , it would be a good hedge against dollar. I still think gold as a hedge against falling dollar. I missed by chance at 550 and 600 (thinking it would go back to 450), i am wondering whether I should take the plunge.

[quote=Bobus;48302]No tax rate differences based on citizenship. Accruals are (a) Distributions made by underlying funds - for India tax purposes it does not matter how these are classified for US tax purposes - will be taxed as dividends under the Indian tax head of income called Income from Other ...

[quote=Bobus;48164]USC, UKC, Martian C or Indian C, once ROR, ROR period [B]accruals from US mutual funds - whether held in IRA, Roth or US taxable accounts[/B] - regardless of which of the 3 vehicles holds these US based mutual funds - is taxable by GOI. So you are right there. But the story does ...

Has anybody done any research on investing primarily in precious metals (PMPIX,GLD etc) Vs investing in overall commodities(DJP) ? The reason I am asking is recently I David Darst in a program where he was stressing more on precious metals than on commodoties. Note that DJP has a 33% allocation for ...

My argument is as follows. I consider hedging as an insurance policy. If I do not have to use it that is great, but would give me some downside protection. I still believe equities should be held as a very high % in everyone's portfolio. I am not a big believer in bonds but I can live with a go ...

This Silly question forum is GREAT! Here is mine. I am in H1b in US now. Much of my savings is in US. Applied for GC an still waiting!. If I choose to R2I either when I am in H1b or after GC can I still hold my assets in US. In other words after a period of time I will become ROR in INdia, what are ...

The best hedge against any falling currency is GOLD. Today Fed is cutting rates and dollar is falling. Tomorrow owing to pressure from exporters in India, RBI may do something to weaken Rupee. Same thing holds good for EURO,POUND C$ etc. If a currency weakens it helps exporters a lot. Now you will ...

After reading through the posts I found the following, If you R2I the returns on your foreign investments (like in US) are taxed at least at 20% by GOI. I took a lot of time to plan investments in US to avoid US tax. So I am not worried that much about taxes by US gov. But I wonder there is no ...

It is not that I am familiar with financial terms. I think the various articles on taxation are not well organized and is all over the places. May be it will be better if they are properly organized. There could be one post listing all types of investments and for each investment we have taxes in ...

I also saw about the RNOR status when you return to India.My question is basically for the long term. So I am interested in knowing the tax structure during and after the RNOR status.