Yesterday I saw, and I hope you saw that WB is not a fund manager. However almost all his thoughts on investing are worth reading and re-reading. Let us look at something very simple. WB says choose simplicity over complexity. Keep it simple. Do what is easy and simple – leave the complicated things to […]
Delayed gratification is so boring! Particularly when it comes to finances, constantly pinching pennies and saving all your extra cash is pretty darn boring when you get right down to it. Which is why so few people do it well. There are too many fun things to spend money on.Yet, unrestrained spending (especially the kind […]
As a financial planner I do spend a lot of time with 16 year olds working in call centers, media companies, banks and so on. When I am with them and discussing their problems, the one question that often comes to my mind is, “If these guys cannot make their monthly salary stretch one month, […]
Are the markets over heated? Are the PE ratios too high? are 2 questions that I have been asked a million times – right from the markets being at 3500 to 21000. And I have not been able to answer them. Only now I realised that the old definition of PE ratio – is the […]
“Never a borrower nor a lender be” because a loan normally loses itself and the friend. This is an old adage right? Surely Nehru, Gandhi, Rajaji did not have a credit card but their great grand children would all be carrying a credit card, maybe a housing loan (or home mortgage as yankees say it), […]
First Make a budget! Budget, is normally a word which has negative connotations! If you see saving and investing as “consumption foregone today for consuming at a later date” you might see it in a different light. One of the challenges with proper budgeting is that it has to become habitual to be effective. You […]
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 you must have been approached by some investment advisor. He (increasingly she) must have offered you mutual […]