Most writers of personal finance have spent half their lives talking about the virtues of compounding, well, at least I have. So not compounding your money is bad. That is done and dusted. What can be worse? Borrowing. Borrowing is worse than not compounding your money – it is a case of NEGATIVE compounding. […]
It is really a pleasure to write – I address an audience of 3 million views – from 139 countries. This is not small by any stretch of imagination. However, along with that it means I get mails asking me for help in investing. The questions are more like: – I am 45 years of […]
Most people are generally under the impression that the Government of India (actually the party in power) misuses the psu money and that is bad. True, well almost. HOWEVER, please note that some advantages that the psu undertakings enjoy should not be ignored. For a very long time you could pay your advance tax ONLY […]
One of the stupidest things I have seen people do while creating wealth is interrupting the compounding. When a person invests in mutual funds, unit linked policies, national savings certificate, ppf, direct equity, …et al it is fairly obvious that they will break something. Now if you suddenly need Rs. 2-3 lakhs from a portfolio […]
Hare and the Tortoise Retold Here is a story of two different investors – who just happen to be real clients of mine. Since I cannot name them I need to give them pseudonyms. One investor is Mr. Kachua. As this is a derived name, you can guess his basic nature – he is cool […]
It is customary for people to say “I do not take any risk in equity markets” all my money is in PPF. Let us look at what are the risks involved in investing in PPF. First of all most of the people I meet today invest far, far more in a year than the max […]