Most business people pay lip service to education and training. If you are a business man and know your business well you still need to learn about money. You need to be updated about HR. What about logistics? – really the works. Ask a group of business people if they’d be willing to attend a […]
Suzie Orman runs a popular program in the US of A which is simply titled “Can I afford it?” wherein people call in to ask “Can I afford a second hand Mercedes which costs me $ 45,000?”. Then Suzie sizes up the situation checking up whether the person has some money in her/his savings account, […]
Many of my posts are based on the Financial Planning / Mutual fund training class that I do. One question that normally people ask me about where to keep their emergency funds. I do give a variety of answers, but here is what I have done: A friend who is an investment adviser has a […]
I have no interest in the Radia tapes. I have no view on Barkha or for that matter on N Ram or Shekhar Gupta. Once upon a time (1977) I had a lot of respect for Indian Express, never trusted the other newspaper in Mumbai, read Illustrated Weekly for Kushwant Singh’s column, read Evening news […]
Principles are fixed, and can be written on stone. Here are some of them (nothing original, I can assure you). Some you will find in books by Branson, Rhonda Byrne, Buffett, ….Trump. However you may not find all of these in one place ..So here it is: 1. To be prosperous you have to believe […]
Make that first investment; waiting is costing you a bomb! After every lecture on financial planning, I get many requests for information from, young people just starting out in life. Regardless of their age, people do realize that a little upfront planning and action can put them ahead of the game. Therefore, here is what […]
This is a very old story…you can attribute the wise man to be Moses, Buddha, Tenali Raman, Birbal….choice is yours. The story goes like this…. There was a man who was digging a well. He was hoping to strike water soon. One man came up to him and said ‘Arre you are digging for water […]