sorry, the service provider that I am using has some major crisis at his end i think…i could not change the date of the post that I did in 2011…it is a good post, so I thought I should just re-produce it here..take a lil trouble and click on the following please…of course i could […]

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Most parents I know support their children through college. Fair enough. Then they pay for the ‘higher education’ – this means an MBA. Not fair, but very unIndian to say ‘go get a loan’. So it is all right. Then they support them in the ‘early’ part of their lives with a car, a down […]

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I have written tons on how to invest…and clearly I think reading the investment MAGAZINES and watching TV are no-no-never in my scheme of things. read selectively, switch off the tv and stay on for the long term….have been my mantras.. but here this is what Fool.com has to say http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/08/14/3-simple-ways-to-stay-sane-in-the-market.aspx#.UCxGGKnibxo     

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  First of all get the basics right…Retirement is expensive, EARN it only then will you deserve it. Even if you plan to retire at say 58…it is not too early to start planning for it when you are say 50 years of age. It is necessary to find something worthwhile to do. It cannot […]

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This is the one and only question that should be uppermost in your minds when you buy an insurance product. Does not matter whether it is life insurance, health insurance or auto insurance. Let us deal with each one of them. Take life insurance. When I checked the premium for a 28 year old wanting […]

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When it comes to investing in equities, it is nice to have a lot of rules. This means your full portfolio behaves to certain rules. Rules can be made for: – Stock picking,  Stock review, Portfolio balancing, re-balancing, diversification, …. HOWEVER IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO KNOW why it was made in the first place. […]

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  At the outset let me clarify – this post was not triggered by Aamir Khan’s Satyameva Jayate. I was told that the participants were nicely picked up from their homes, put up in a nice hotel, treated very well, given gifts – and they were overall very happy! Be that as it may, this […]

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