Animal Planet may well be the best channel to watch for investments! Surprised? Well, considering that investor behaviour resembles that of herds, it does not sound all that unreasonable. After all, in 2001 we found it hard to convince them that it was worthwhile to invest in equities. And in 2008, it was hard to […]
dr m kishan on January 31st, 2013 at 8:15 am e Subra Sir, Goal setting is very important aspect of any effort financial planning may being one. But I always have one query. Imagine if all of my goals are somewhere about 20 years down the time, do I still have to allot different financial […]
So by the end of January we have made our resolutions, promised to keep them, and have now broken them, have we not? Well what are the major ways a person breaks / destroys resolutions? Not sure about the other resolutions – but financial resolutions are destroyed by the following people behavior: 1. Missing […]
One person came to me saying ‘This is a financial plan that my planner has done, is it good?’. The plan was elaborate – cash flows for 10 years into the future, what product for each goal, rate of return assumption, – all this was there. It ran into 59 pages and could be […]
If you qualified in 2007..and started a SIP in 2008 in a long term equity fund, chances are your account is still in the red. Trying telling this kid ‘In the long run you will make money’. Even well qualified and older persons are finding it difficult to believe their ‘wealth creation strategy of doing […]
This may sound very simple, but then simple things which we think are common sense need to be told…right? So what are the 4 crucial factors that determine your retirement corpus amount? Well if you do not know, here are the 4 factors: 1. How much you invest: Many people think that they know […]
Well none of us know what next…but let us look at the crystal ball: – we are at 16,200 on the sensex as I write this post. Do not rule out a 25% jump in about 12 months time – which is more than 3 years yield in the debt market. – we all knew […]