Today there are people who live up to the age of 95 as well as those who die at 59. Some of them have very smartly multiplied their money and some live on a hand to mouth basis. Depending on what your parents have done, and what you have done with your own life, […]
Mrs. Sanmeet Kaur Sahani is the first lady winner at the Kaun Banega Crorepati..(Indian version of Who wants to be a Millionaire)…this is a program conducted by the legendary Amitabh Bachhan and has got the imagination of the Indian middle class. She won Rs. 5 crores (Rs. 50 million) – about US $ 1 […]
What is so scary about retirement? The big worry that you will run out of money before you die. Rather you OUTLIVING your money. Is it a fear? I think it is a nightmare especially for those who do not have assets which they are NOT USING, children not doing well, and those women who […]
It is really a pleasure to write – I address an audience of 3 million views – from 139 countries. This is not small by any stretch of imagination. However, along with that it means I get mails asking me for help in investing. The questions are more like: – I am 45 years of […]
I know of a friend who is about 45 years old and he has NOBODY in the world. A single child, his father was also a single child. His mother was a rebel who did not keep in touch with anybody at all. Now after his parents death he has nobody at all. It is […]
Thanks to the media everybody now knows about the NPS. At the end of training sessions people do ask…’Is the NPS suitable for me?”. Well that is a difficult question to answer. Let me tell you for whom NPS is not suitable at all! If you are young: If you are below the age of […]
A friend asked me to see value research online – and see the lead story on why you should distrust your adviser. I was amused because ‘How to select a financial adviser’ is a topic with which I have often grappled for and on behalf of many friends. Let us take a typical ‘media’ answer […]