Investment resolutions for 2011

However is a good list of resolutions that you can make – it is really useful if you made it already, just reiterate it, and follow it! So here it goes 1.    I will write down my financial goals – NOW, IMMEDIATELY. 2. I will convert a big portion of my savings into investments – [...]

Rent or buy real estate?

I have written many pieces on ‘buy or rent real estate’. I have got feedback saying ‘If my father had also bought a flat…I would not have bought’. That may not be the right argument. It is a person’s migration from one level of strata to the other one which is marked by ‘buying’ a [...]

Fantastic Investment Opportunities

There are a few people I know who keep chasing investment opportunities. There are some people who are good in one field – say sales, marketing, operations, dentistry, physiotherapy,….could be anything, so they think they are good in finance. Of course some of them visit websites, talk to people, read books and suddenly believe that [...]

Sacking is still on…

Well for all those people who thought that 2008 is long past us should wake up. The world economy is not picture perfect as yet, and we are still in tough times – but it may look smooth. After all the world is also seeing this kind of turmoil for the first time. The Pre [...]

Show off assets vs. Real assets

An asset should bring you money. If this is the definition of an asset – your golf kit, your gold jewellery, your Mercedes, the house in which you live,  – normally what people consider assets suddenly look like ‘expense’ rather than an asset! Every cheque that you sign is either an expenditure or the purchase [...]

Borrowing for investing? Be conservative!

If you have a financial planner with a ‘product sale’ mentality – especially who has sold loan products also in the past, there is a good chance that he would suggest leverage. Leverage means borrowing. So read on… Financial planner: Borrowing sensibly is a good way to build wealth. Do a disciplined borrowing and you [...]