Market timing can make you RICH!

Have you ever been tempted by newsletters, sooth sayers, channels, websites offering you immense riches by “timing the market”? I bet you have been. Each year millions of people (worldwide) spend ’000s of dollars to subscribe to newsletters, email services, sms alerts, phone calls, etc. trying to beat the market. If you see the long [...]

Tips for investing by doctors

I meet a lot of doctors in my professional and social life. Luckily I met a great homeopath doctor about 30 years back – and he has kept me away from medicines SINCE then! So I do not meet doctors for seeking medicines / treatment. However, here are my observations about a doc’s business skills. [...]

Financial Planning Seminar in your city…an invite..

I am doing a series of short “Why Management should be interested in Personal Financial Well-being of their employees – an Introduction to financial planning” seminars in the following locations on the following dates. This is being sponsored by myiris plus – a revolutionary personal finance software. It will be a 2 hour affair – [...]

Can a Doctor retire early?

How can a Doc retire early? Docs start earning quite late in life – at least the big bucks come at a late stage. So is it really possible for a Doc to retire early? It really looks difficult. Docs unless they are super specialized and have created some kind of aura about their capabilities [...]

Retirement Planning simple steps

  In every financial planning class I need to do a post lunch session. To keep them awake I ask them to do a simple exercise – calculating how much money they require for retirement. Unless they are at least 32-33 years of age, they have no clue as to how much they need for [...]

Emergency cash reserves – where to keep

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 [...]