Is your investing similar to your eating? Let us see. If I were to call in a team of about 40 people into a class room and ask them a few questions…let us see what kind of answers we are likely to get. Then later on we will see why. 1. What kind of food […]
See if you are doing these things or at least some of these things to destroy your financial health….. 1. Postpone starting to save / invest: Forget that there is a tomorrow. Let us look at the reasons that people use: a) I am too young to save / invest b) I am too old […]
One day when you are 40, your wife will scream at you saying ‘You have done NOTHING’ for our old age….. So you will feel guilty and continue to watch TV….but there will be no action…. Then one day at lunch your colleague will tell you …’hey you know what I just bought a pension […]
Once in a while a man comes along willing to offer you his everything. Including his life. It is not easy, not many of us can do it. If I give somebody a book out of my super overflowing library, I keep track to get it back. I have no clue when I gave something […]
A senior executive from a leading private sector bank met up for lunch. One of the topics that came up was “Will gold prices go up?”. He immediately said, YES, SURE, it will shoot up if we sell more gold. Intrigued, I asked him to explain. He told me a story of one PYT that […]
The second step in retirement planning is to compare the Income and Expenses. Of course there are 3 possibilities: Expenses = Income Expenses > Income Expenses < Income Without getting into any relative terms, situation 1 and 2 are close to disaster. Also remember if expenses are only slightly lesser than income, the demon called […]
A senior executive from a leading private sector bank met up for lunch. One of the topics that came up was “Will gold prices go up?”. He immediately said, YES, it will shoot up if we sell more gold. Intrigued, I asked him to explain. He told me a story of one PYT that the […]