Retirement Planning – sounds very intimidating to many people. However, like all long journeys it begins with a small step. First of all you need to accept that you will retire, and like all events in life the person who is better prepared will face it better. So retirement planning can be made to look […]
My parents always managed to make ends meet, even though my mother was a stay-at-home mom and my father worked in a factory! Neither my sibling nor I did things like ‘tuitions’ and these kind of income supplementing stuff. Of course unlike many people of my father’s generation he did not have to support his […]
How safe are government securities? Is this a question bothering you? Welcome. Many people have asked me this question, and I have struggled to explain the answer. Central Government securities are 100% safe. These are what are called ‘Soverign Paper’ and is guaranteed by Pratibha Patil – the Government of India! Interest rate payments, principal, […]
This article appeared in moneycontrol.com long back (cicrca 2006)…but it is still relevant, so here it is…. Immaterial of whether you are in your 20’s or in your 50’s and you are looking at an investment you should know some of the basics of investing, so here it is. By and large at some stage […]
Here is a book review for this great book….and this appeared in BSENSEX – BSE-SENSEX – it is a magazine which goes to the CEOs of companies listed on the BSE and to all its members. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash” by Charles R. Morris One of […]
a better version of this appeared recently in moneycontrol – in their wealth section… Shiva Garru of Hyderabad told me a story really difficult to believe, amusing for the readers and sad for the participant. His father in law had invested in fixed deposits and lost money, where as his father had a lot of […]
Kaun Banega Crorepati? Well this is what Amitabh Bachan asked you for a whole year! Of course everybody realized that the Indian is now wanting to be more than a crorepati. So the stakes in the game shows increased from Rs. – 1 to 5 to 10 crores! Frankly unless you are already a crorepati, […]