In every financial planning class I need to do a post lunch session. To keep them awake I ask them to do a simple exercise – calculating how much money they require for retirement. Unless they are at least 32-33 years of age, they have no clue as to how much they need for retirement. […]
Money in the hand today is worth more than money that will come in tomorrow. Obviously money has a time value. However questions are never asked like this… For example a friend has a small cozy flat in one of the suburbs of Mumbai. He paid Rs. 77,000 for it in the year 1976 – […]
One important part of portfolio management is to have self confidence. What I mean is if you have a good company in your portfolio, do not think it is a bad share :). ‘Ghar ki murgi daal barabar’ becomes a reality even while you are handling a portfolio. If say I have 1000 shares of […]
this post is being repeated. Had posted it earlier for a few hours…but was removed..because there was some more important ‘breaking news’ story…so it is coming up again… A few days ago I did a training for a Wealth Management Company. Not too keen to mention client names..but it was a high quality client and […]
My heart goes out to people who run television channels, magazines and websites – the constant search for news is not easy. Let us take the RBI rate hike which happened. A 0.25% increase in the Repo rate is actually not such a big news, but if you have to write about, it, well, you […]
To augment its Tier II capital State bank of India is coming out with a micro issue of Rs. 500 crores. I am deliberately calling this a micro issue, because there is a huge appetite for such coupon rates (9.2% to 9.5%) from such a great borrower (a AAA rating through the life of the […]
When a friend who has Rs. 3 crores of aum says I need to create an income stream for my parents what do you do? worry about the loss of aum? suggest a MIP with 10% equities or tell the truth – the Senior Citizens Saving Yojana – now made convenient by being able to […]