Well I have a lot of presence on the web – fb, linkedin, twitter, then the obvious mails…etc. One of the websites I use is ‘moneycontrol’ – for prices and charts…funny thing is a part of my portfolio is there. I keep getting advice as follows: –Cholamandalam is the biggest loser in your portfolio..what should […]
Too much is made out of entry load, exit load, ulip, cost of fund management etc. Most of the loss (leakage) in personal finance can be attributed to the inefficiency of execution. Even good advice is lost to poor execution! Let me enumerate (Ripley’s should not use it in their Believe it or Not, please) […]
Let us take a typical Punjabi wedding in north India….there are many people who carry guns and fire in the air. Why the do it does not matter, but they do it. Or let us take the case of a kid who is asking his mother permission to go to a friend’s house – and […]
Just stepped down in our building to stand near a dead body being removed. Had no intention of going to the cemetary…suddenly there were not enough people willing to touch a dead body. Whatever be the reason this was the first funeral of a person whose name I do not know. This was the mother […]
Property is seen as a safe asset. Most people have the following arguments for investing in property: – price can never go down – see prices in the last 10 years, my brother’s property has gone up 3 times !! Vow!! – God does not make more of it anymore, so prices can only go […]
More than 300 families that I know must have made this statement! I love it. All those reading my blog know that I believe in keeping things simple, and using own skills rather than ‘hired’ skills. Even when it comes to making a will…my normal advice is “If you have led a simple uncomplicated life […]
Many of my posts are based on the Financial Planning / Mutual fund training class that I do. One question that normally people ask me about where to keep their emergency funds. I do give a variety of answers, but here is what I have done: A friend who is an investment adviser has a […]