When 2 people get married……we hope that they are financially compatiable, sometimes they are, sometimes they are not… Here are the details of a couple …and they had an amazing story. I took their permission to share the story with you… He is 42 she is 37 years old. He works for a huge pharmaceutical […]
Today it is very easy to live beyond ones’ means. If you take any magazine you will find about 15 advertisements – of this about 14 will extol you to live beyond your means. If you can afford a Ford Ikon, they will urge you to buy a Honda City. If you can buy […]
Some of the kids I know are going to HATE me for this article…sorry guys n gals but you have really inspired me to write this. Honestly this is dedicated to you. Here it goes! 1. Your cheques bounce: Oh not regularly but 4 times in a year. This could be because your salary came […]
My orientation is to try to write LARGELY on wealth. I suddenly realized that to get wealthy you need seed capital (!!). For the real young ones who have JUST started earning (aged 22-25) they need to know about: funding buying an asset, credit cards, credit score, some career moves, educational loans, ….the real basics. […]
The current generation is earning very well – remember most of what people considered as ‘luxuries’ in the 1960s, 1970s, etc. are today considered as a necessity. Also if you consider that in the 1970s when salaries were much lower, and taxation were much, much higher white goods were about 2-3 MONTHS income even for […]
Last week I was travelling and therefore watched Television – and it was Utvi Bloomberg that I watched. Here the very sensible (and not so shrill) Surabhi Upadhyay was doing a program on debt reduction / consolidation. Funnily it is perhaps the only program on the borrowing side. Most other channels and ‘personal finance’ experts […]
Today it is very easy to live beyond ones’ means. If you take any magazine you will find about 15 advertisements – of this about 14 will extol you to live beyond your means. If you can afford a Ford Ikon, they will urge you to buy a Honda City. If you can buy a […]