Immaterial of what age you are there are times when you get into a sticky financial situation. What are such situations and how do you handle them? 1. A close friend of yours has taken a loan – and is not making any attempt to repay that! Well this could be a friend, a sibling, […]
My parents always managed to make ends meet, even though my mother was a stay-at-home mom and my father worked in a factory! Neither my sibling nor I did things like ‘tuitions’ and these kind of income supplementing stuff. Of course unlike many people of my father’s generation he did not have to support his […]
Whenever people see me in a group gathering, they come and talk to me about equity markets. I am not sure why they do it, but it is very useful for a guy looking for topics to write on. So a few people will come and tell me “I lost money in 1992 and then […]
The Indian financial year just went by and you must have done your last minute topping of 80C, paid your medical premium, got your rent agreement in place, reviewed your Housing Loan papers, got your Form 16 – and would be preparing for filing your return, right? Well it is a good time to visit […]
Let us see what happens when a HNI wants to build a debt portfolio of his balance sheet! If you see the post ‘all debt products’ – I have enumerated all the mutual fund debt products..if you have not seen that post done on 4 Feb, 2014 please visit that post first… Why only a […]
Is it safer to invest in shares through IPOs? Not at all. In fact it is riskier to invest through IPOs. IPOs are priced by professionals to get the best price possible for the promoter of a company. So the odds are against the investor and works in favor of the professional. So chances of […]