Archive for the 'risk' Category

Getting out of debt

Many things in life are better achieved slowly if you want the gain to be permanent! Does this remind you of another boring task – the process of losing weight? If so, welcome!
Investing and money management is a lot like eating. So is losing debt like dieting? maybe…maybe not. Is getting out of debt a [...]

What is inflation?

this article appeared in money mantra….as a lead story on inflation.
Inflation is perhaps one of the least understood risks in investing. Understanding the power of small numbers is not easy. That is the reason why people find it difficult to understand the impact of compounding too – after all inflation is just negative compounding. Let [...]

Wealth creation and ego

There is good ego and bad ego. The good ego is what tells the kid that the body is different from the table. It tells you where your body starts and where it ends. If you see a 2-year old kid going under a table or a chair – he is checking out his ‘ego’. [...]

Risky financial behaviour 7 to 12

A few days back I had done a story about risky financial behaviour.  I had said 1-6, so here are the another 6 – from 7 to 12.
I did not want to say here are 6 in a set of 22…’cause I wanted to leave it open ended..
7. Time diversification: You cannot pay your hotel [...]