Yesterday (24 Feb 2010) belonged to the world’s most worshipped cricket player ever to have walked the earth. Welcome to the world of Sachin Tendulkar. He displayed a Master class in cricket – and a CD of his best innings with a voice over from Ian Chappell, Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and Rahul […]
The Kharghoshs were leading a comfortable, lifestyle. Typical Alpha male knew everything about investing by reading brokerage websites! He knew that equity gives best returns, so he had a leveraged life style! His house, car, vacations, were all from borrowings. He had ALWAYS earned far greater than the interest rates that he was paying. He […]
I have myself written many times about how to get rich and such other topics. Now I am myself changing it – some may even say topsy turvy. Ok if you do google you will find the steps – have a plan, make a budget, save money, invest it, put it in a mutual fund, […]
There are many people I know who are contemplating retirement 5-15 years before they HAVE to retire. When I ask them WHY do they want to retire, these are the normal answers that I get: 1. Have enough money. However there are a few people who say they have ‘enough’. Then I calculate how much […]
There are many people who like to make lists – tallest, shortest, fastest…but one list everybody loves to see their name on is clearly the Forbes’ list. The Richest Man. Sadly only the person with the highest net worth can be measured honestly. I know of one businessman whose office went overtime on the net […]
Ayn Rand says “money is the root cause of all good”. Indian philosophy says ‘money increases desire – and like ghee and wood to a fire – increases desire and misery’. Immaterial of whether you take the western view or the eastern view, all of us have at some point chased money, have we not? […]
Why do people postpone making their will? They think they will never die? Or they are sure that all their heirs know about their inner desires? Well read on… The current generation of clients whom I meet is inheriting nice big round amounts of money. However since their own salaries are far, far higher than […]