The world has told Sachin Tendulkar when to retire, but nobody wants to tell Sunil Gavaskar when to retire. I am sure he will be in the commentary box when Arjun Tendulkar retires and continue to say ‘you should go …in glory and when the world asks ‘why’ and not ‘why not’?. LOL. I guess […]
For most people a job is a means of earning money. Correct? No. Wrong. Completely wrong. For just too many people it is a social need to going to the office to do some work. This is completely true for the male population and partially true for the female population. Now if you have no […]
Let me start by saying: It is not easy! Senior citizens – let us say the senior citizen who has been successful in life and has led a healthy life and is now about 75+ years of age. He / she is simply bored. They may or may not admit, but most of them are […]
as a writer, blogger, investment adviser, I have searched up and down for a ‘good’ retirement plan. I still do suggest the Templeton India Pension Plan…but at an age over 45 – till then I suggest only a token amount of say 5-10k a month. here Babar Zaidi says something about creating your own plans. […]
This is the year when many of my classmates turn 50. So obviously me too 🙂 Here are my thoughts on preparing for retirement. Many planners who are dealing with people past their earning prime, will benefit to know some of this. In my experience I have found that people who are doing their own […]
This is such a catchy headline and completely contradictory to my saying ‘if you do not know what you are going to do with your leisure, do not retire’! Frankly the word ‘Retirement’ means ‘doing what you enjoy rather than doing what you must’. So a retired doctor could still be in practice – […]
We just saw…part 1 of ‘should I retire at all’…now here are the hassles – or why I have been having these doubts! Here are the reasons: Of course the most important question is “Will my corpus last 4 decades….for me and my wife to survive on”… 1. In India we have NO social security […]