You are a hard working mutual fund employee. That means you sit in the branch and have targets to meet. You have been in this fund house for the past 3 years and look after operations. In walks a 67 year old man who wants to invest Rs. 10L for a period of 2 years. […]

Not all businessmen know what to do with their business, so they linger on in the business. Almost no first generation businessman has time to develop any hobby or even create a social circle outside his business. Of course many people in service are also like that, but for them there is “compulsory retirement” at […]

The Millennial Entrepreneur needs financial advice, but not the way the IFA is currently dishing it out for him. Many of them are seriously going to outlive their retirement corpus, but there may be other solutions. Here… Pay for all your goals too! – “Pay your self first” is an old concept that I have […]

When a person is successful you are not liked. Not liked by a lot of people – and so they will come up with the most amazing statements. Like “Why did Mukesh Ambani spend so much on his children’s wedding” or “Do you know that Sachin did not pay any duty on the car gifted […]

The Tata Mumbai Marathon for 2021 will be announced shortly. Why am I writing about it now?  Well, like all big marathons this will also have the following – Qualification Entry fee Dress code, and bib wearing code a start line, a finish line, timing measuring equipment along the way support – water, energy drinks, markers, medication Volunteers […]

Are you surprised that I am writing this post now? Well into my 12th year of blogging why am I doing a ‘Personal finance 101’ for businessmen? Well I was quite shocked to see how many businessmen are very poor in personal finance. I have been asking a friend for his investment details, and I […]

Standard Chartered Bank has come out with an interesting “Wealth Expectancy Report for 2019”. They have coined some new interesting terminology. You need to understand some of those terms….(copied from the Report, obviously) Wealth Expectancy – the max wealth a person is expected to achieve in his life time. It is assumed to happen at […]