Ask any person what is their biggest asset? Well it sets them thinking….and then the facts… Most people do not know what is their biggest asset. They then say – it is ‘ my house’ , ‘my equity portfolio’, my car, etc. However then I lead them to the next question: Have you borrowed for […]
For the past 3 decades (at least) YOU have been told by us (media) that there is ‘good’ debt and that there is ‘bad’ debt. Good debt is a beautiful concept ‘created’ by lenders with a great, benevolent image to say that: interest rates are low it is tax deductible and it is used to […]
I have handled this question many times, and have come out with similar answers. However here are some questions which are IRRELEVANT …. 1. How much has the house appreciated by: Many people write in to say ‘I paid Rs. 20L now it is worth Rs. 37 lakhs’…This is completely immaterial. Your house appreciating has […]
Many people may not have heard this. Of course many would have heard this, but may not know what it means…so here it goes! When you earn a certain amount of money – all of that does not come to you. Some of it goes off as profession tax, income tax, insurance, provident fund….etc. […]
Let us look at some things which were heralded as a fantastic solution for a problem. Then we will see how these have NOW become problems and not a solution as it should have been. Insurance, Home loan, car loan, educational loan, derivatives, leverage, credit cards, ………….. Look at business Insurance. It is a brilliant […]
Planning to do a series of articles on Couples and Money. I do not wish to see how many articles, but this is clearly one of the earliest. A couple may fall in love or have an arranged marriage, but they surely meet before their marriage…so these are things which they should surely talk about. […]
Well none of us get a windfall everyday…but what should we do if we get one? There is no clear answer to a question like ‘what to do with a windfall’ – because there is no one answer which will fit all of us. Let us say a person gets a windfall – let […]