Archive for February, 2010

Real Estate prices: Mumbai and Navi Mumbai

Why is Navi Mumbai real estate so expensive? Or is it correctly priced? Well answers are difficult to get. A decent 2 bedroom apartment costs upward of @Rs One crore. Even for a professional who has a nice starting salary of say Rs. 500,000 gross income (per annum) the cost of a flat is about [...]

Budget and after..

It is very exciting to do a post on the budget.  All you have to do is a lot of cut, copy and paste. My mail box is full of documents about the budget – and there is only only key that I had to use. It is called ‘Del’. Frankly for the common man [...]

Doctors: Way to wealth

  The greatest wealth in the world has not been created by inheritance – but by investing! It is only this generation that can make this comment. We are lucky to be living in times when we can make this statement. Let us take examples of Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, L N Mittal, Azim Premji, [...]

Sachin Tendulkar’s Motivation?

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 [...]

Doctors and Money…

Doctors and money – it could be titled anything, but since this dialogue was started with a doc, I have called it Doctors and Money! “If you had outsourced managing your money to an outsider, and he had managed it the way you have managed, would you still hire him?” I started my training in [...]

Retirement Guide in India

Here is a book review of Retire Rich Invest Rs. 40 a day….planning to carry more such reviews. This is by a person who is over 55 years of age. I liked the chapters on withdrawals(pun intended) after retirement – the topic on annuities and how they could be used effectively to protect equity based [...]