I am not a big advocate of stock market advisory. Just too much about stock market investing has to be LEARNT and very little can be taught. There is too much of common sense. Some of it looks like it is ‘obvious’ but I have seen too many people fail doing even this. So here […]

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How much does it cost a financial planner to do your planning services? Or let us turn it on the other side – how much does it cost a financial planner to render financial planning services for you? For this you need to know what are the costs that are incurred by a financial planner […]

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This cannot be original for sure. It is the result of lots of reading (subconscious cut paste), learning from health related stuff (subconscious cut paste), experience (original mistakes), client mistakes (even tried to prevent a few), …so if you find it common to something somewhere (even my own old post, pardon me): It is not […]

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I got out at 6pm -and it was bright. About 5 minutes into my walk and it turned very windy (my neighbor lost his car with a tree fall, luckily it was just parked and had nobody in it). And in 10 minutes it was pouring, real hard. With more than half a century on […]

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Even though we are all above average, intelligent, smart and financially savvy, we still need to read this. You got it, right? We all cannot be above average. A few of us have to be below average. This post is for all of us. Everybody in this big bad world is trying to sell you […]

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If you have come into investing recently and have been subject to many experts, my sincere condolences. It is a jungle out there and there is an alphabet soup of qualifications – all most all well intentioned, presumably! first realize that life is a complete package, when you are young and drawing your first salary, […]

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I am not convinced that Equity investing is learnt in a college. In fact it is not. If you must have a qualification, I do think the CA degree, and if your energy levels permit, the CFA degree (US) are surely a good beginning. I benefited surely by my Law training – and wondering whether […]

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