The amount of time that this country spends on cricket is huge. I am saying this at a time when I consider cricket a complete waste of time – this after having spent hours on end watching cricket till about 1999-2000. What are my learning from cricket? 1. For those of us brought up on […]
One financial planner met a client and had the following details: A 38 year old man with a daughter from an earlier marriage (age 11) a son from the present marriage (7 years) a housewife, parents needing support and a mother in law dependent on him. (5 complete dependents, daughter partially dependent – his ex […]
There are always three sides to a divorce. Her story. His story. And more importantly the bitter truth. Have seen my more than fair share of divorces. Innocent guys completely cleaned up by scheming women, and the reverse. There is no gender to cheating or preparing for a divorce. The most important thing in a […]
Too many people in the media are obsessed about fund management costs. This is not a bad thing – after all this is the ONLY thing to which we retail investors have access, right. Fund managers on the other hand (ok the 3-4 fund managers who I have spoken with and who have over the […]
I have handled this question many times, and have come out with similar answers. However here are some questions which are IRRELEVANT …. 1. How much has the house appreciated by: Many people write in to say ‘I paid Rs. 20L now it is worth Rs. 37 lakhs’…This is completely immaterial. Your house appreciating has […]
Most writers of personal finance have spent half their lives talking about the virtues of compounding, well, at least I have. So not compounding your money is bad. That is done and dusted. What can be worse? Borrowing. Borrowing is worse than not compounding your money – it is a case of NEGATIVE compounding. […]
Not that I know Mahesh Murthy personally – i guess he is just a click away, nor do I hate Arindam Ponytail Chaudhuri….but here is a nice interesting post… I had got an application of a kid who had studied in the great college – and he had spent Rs. 1 million. The best job […]