this appeared last week in MoneyControl…. Investment in turbulent times! The market has gone nowhere in the past 4 years. When your financial planner / relationship manager / advisor told you that equities are for the long run he/she also said ‘long run’ means more than one year, correct? Well you invested when the index [...]
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) [...]
People ask me what should a financial planner do? Well if I were to write a book on financial planning, I could write a few chapters on this topic. One thing however he MUST do is ask you a lot of questions – some painful. For example when I talk to a new, unknown person [...]
If your financial planner told you “The longer your time horizon, the more stocks you should own”. You need to tell him “Time isn’t everything. You must also consider I am a broker in the life insurance business!” It’s one of the basic rules of thumb: The more years you have to recoup losses, the [...]
This is from experience – the advantage of meeting 5000+ people is enumerated here 1. Have a realistic expectation from the financial planner (see yesterdays post) 2. Know what to expect from a planner 3. If you do not have your data in an organized manner, the planner is not likely to spend time organizing [...]
Sounds funny but we may have reached a state in our lives that we need coaches for many things. It is not far away that a Wedding Planner will include ‘pre-wedding’ arrangements like doing a medical test for the bridal couple, arrange for a session by a financial planner – on how to manage your [...]