It is funny how politicians react to a difficult situation. And the similarity and predictability of their reaction. When commodity prices go up, our great Chidambaram bans price discovery! A study can clearly show that the prices of goods are influenced by demand and supply. When demand for a product increases, price increases and when […]
Delayed gratification is so boring! Particularly when it comes to finances, constantly pinching pennies and saving all your extra cash is pretty darn boring. 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 that lands us in debt) is the […]
I would have called this a million dollar question. However, thanks to this great meltdown, let me call it the Trillion dollar question. The Optimistic view: the world loves a bull market. The world loves a winner. The world loves to see the “good” man win – that is why we pay millions of rupees […]
Doctors normally start their practice and the money starts coming in – first in trickles and then as a flood. Over enthusiastic accountants and ignorant doctors are a dangerous combination – they keep the doctor’s income low so that lesser tax can be paid. Suddenly if the doctor wants to set up a bigger […]
A few hundred calls from friends, relatives, readers….have all had the same question on their lips. “What should I do now?”, “Will the index touch 9000?”, “Should I stop my SIPs?”, “When will the market recover?” Frankly I have no answer to some of these questions. I realise that the real good fund manager (by […]
If you are a reasonably well off individual living in India’s metros, at some stage a “relationship manager” or a “wealth manager” would have approached you with an offer to “manage” your wealth. You may have recoiled in horror, or been pleased that somebody thinks you are now in the “wealth” category. However, do not […]
I am doing a series of short “Why Management should be interested in Personal Financial Well-being of their employees – an Introduction to financial planning” seminars in the following locations on the following dates. This is being sponsored by myiris plus – a revolutionary personal finance software. It will be a 2 hour affair – […]