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fee based financial planning: India

Once upon a time long long ago there was a village doctor. He examined you, made the medicines and you were all right. The air was clean, people worked hard, and died quite young. Then it evolved…..to where we are today. http://www.subramoney.com/book-written-by-me/ In the wealth ‘business’ we are still at the village doctor stage – [...]

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, [...]

Ego and Investing

Ego and pride are not really useful elements while investing. Many investors I know have made money because of luck or research done by some other person. However when they apply their minds a little on the shares that they buy, they think they are doing research! My research for example, is completely outsourced to [...]

Doctor cure thyself!

Last week in my quest to gather information of how doctors live I met a doctor and had a look at his annual cash flow. It almost scared me. Here was a doctor (for our story let us call him Dr. Pradeep married to Bhargavi a house wife). Here is his annual cash flow statement: [...]

Can a doctor retire early?

How can a Doc retire early? Docs start earning quite late in life – at least the big bucks come at a late stage. So is it really possible for a Doc to retire early? It really looks difficult. Docs unless they are super specialized and have created some kind of aura about their capabilities [...]

Children’s Day: Helping children financially?

So here is Children’s Day – a good day for parents and children to take stock financially speaking! Most parents like to think they are helping their children by helping them financially. Especially if you are doing well – but in many cases even if you are not doing so well. Take the case of [...]