Archive for the 'Retirement' Category

Retirement woes?

You think from your age of 50 till your age of 60 years you will earn well and be able to invest aggressively for your retirement. Then tragedy strikes. You are forced to give up your job to look after an ailing parent. Or a sibling. Or perhaps a sibling. Will you give up your [...]

Retirement solutions: Innovative ones…

Many people get scared when they are asked to think of retirement. I do agree that Indians are innovative and can come up with some nice solutions…here are a few that I have seen. 1. a widower living with his unmarried sister: it could never have occurred to R that a simple solution of living [...]

Impressed with this reply…..

One of the girls who read my book….has sent this note….I have masked her name….obviously do not want her name to show up in a Google search!! Name:  hidden           Age: 23          Profession: Service 1. At what age do you plan to retire? Have you started saving for retirement? I plan to retire when I have accumulated [...]

Which pension plan to buy?

Thanks to being an author of a book on Retirement, this question is something that I HAVE TO TACKLE at least once a day if not more than once a day…. Well here is my take (and it is very different from what everybody else in the business has to say): 1. Employees Provident Fund [...]

Lifestyle creep: One item at a time! Happens slowly

Did you realize that you grow old one day at a time, you grow fat one kilo at a time….it is all an SIP..similarly lifestyle creep also happens slowly. Over a long period of time (could be as small as say 4-5 years) when a person moves from a simple middle class guy/gal to a [...]

Which pension plan to buy?

No this is not a guide on which pension plan to buy. It is an invite to see a video presentation by Deepak Shenoy a blogger…he has posted a video on the Max New York Life Pension Plan. http://blog.investraction.com/ – a website called CapitalMind …see the video understand it ….and come back here… He has [...]