There are just too many reasons why people over spend..let me give you a list of what I have seen and what I think….   1. Going with the wrong crowd: Get your going out crowd right. If you are a vegetarian tea drinking person, chances are you will over spend going out with a […]

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This is not a financial post, just a happiness post. If you assume happiness has a lot of financial implications, you are right. If you are happy, you will be rich. Read it again. If you are happy, YOU will be rich – the reverse is not true always!! So to be happy you need […]

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A few dsys ago I posted in FB saying if you ask the wrong questions, you will get wrong advice. Many people may not understand what is a wrong question, so let me list down a few, see if you can identify with a few of them: 1. My Financial planner has asked me to […]

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Just received a copy of ‘My Money Book’ – For a long and happy journey called life. This is an Exide Life Insurance publication and is meant to be a diary of your assets and liabilities. Such a book could also be called ‘a hand over book’.  Let me just explain what this book is […]

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From the famous Tamilian with a white beard…remember him? Remember Thirukural? I also heard that this is NOT from the Thirukural…I am not sure..but it reads well…so please read..and enjoy..we will worry later on about where it is from….. I should have put this up on Children’s Day…but here it is. It is actually for […]

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When our finance professionals want to charge like the American professionals, they should ask themselves one question: ARE THEY WILLING TO SPEND money (like the American bodies do) to analyze the state of the economy, the level of people’s knowledge, the quality of websites, the research, etc? Sigh. Well on the basis of my interaction […]

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I hope this is not an overdose of what to do in a bull market…and I hope that the market remains bullish till it reaches 100,000 on the sensex or at least 36,000 as touted by another media expert. I do not believe both these figures, but then I am a cynic, ain’t I ? […]

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