Well there is no real Indian rule of 15, but I have just taken the American Rule of 25 and adapted to Indian conditions… What is the American Rule of 25? Well if you need an income of 100,000 a year and you are not worried too much about the rate of inflation POST RETIREMENT…then […]
Let us look at some things which were heralded as a fantastic solution for a problem. Then we will see how these have NOW become problems and not a solution as it should have been. Insurance, Home loan, car loan, educational loan, derivatives, leverage, credit cards, ………….. Look at business Insurance. It is a brilliant […]
In the 1960s if you wanted to buy a house, it was considered almost impossible to get a home loan. It was only in 1980 that Hdfc started giving home loans – and that too sensible amounts. That explains why Hdfc is so popular – people love the guys who gave them the HOME. Especially […]
We represent the gen born in the 1960s and we know everything. Yes everything. We represent banks, psu undertakings, life insurance companies, mutual funds,…and all the employers in India. Here listen: 1. “We will recruit you and invest in training” – do not believe this. We expect you to hit the market running on Wednesday […]
So many parents can afford to send their kids abroad today, it is not funny! And most people would have had aspirations to study in Harvard, Wharton,….the Ivy League. Today they can sign cheques of US $ 150,000 without batting an eyelid when their kid says ‘dad I want to study abroad’… In the 1960s, […]
The current generation is earning very well – remember most of what people considered as ‘luxuries’ in the 1960s, 1970s, etc. are today considered as a necessity. Also if you consider that in the 1970s when salaries were much lower, and taxation were much, much higher white goods were about 2-3 MONTHS income even for […]
For many people life is very clear. Parents decide what a kid should study, what they should do in life, whom should they marry, even when to retire. For some kids service is not an option. For some kids business is not an option. For those who are caught in between the decision to be […]