Ignore bitcoin mania: Five personal finance lessons from 2017

Rebalance your investment portfolio, diversify beyond fixed deposits, and don't fall prey to the bitcoin mania

For those who had an allocation to equities, 2017 was a very good year. But with interest rates on fixed-income products falling, fixed-income investors took a beating. Here are five key lessons you can draw from the year that has just gone by.

Rebalance from outperformers to underperformers: The equity markets turned in a very good performance this year. While the Nifty 50 is up 30.71 per cent, the Nifty Free Float Midcap 100 Index is up 50.09 per cent, and the Nifty Free Float Small cap 100 Index is up 60.41 per cent over the past year. Meanwhile, valuations