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 – [...]

Do not lie about money: at least not to yourself!!

Last week I was speaking to a friend who has just retired – and is likely to get a few million in retirement proceeds. Make no mistake she is rich and not really dependent on this amount of money. Her husband earns very well and they are what can be called “upper middle class” by [...]

Take care of the paisa!

If you pay taxes honestly about 50% of what you earn goes off in various taxes – income, service, securities transaction, etc. Now take away another 28% in housing EMI, then another 7% in building maintenance etc. It means your government, and your house have taken away 85% of what you earn. So the 15% [...]

Time in Retirement

When people talk to me about retirement – they compare themselves to their parents. There is a large population that has already got it wrong. I met 2 people who have crossed 85 years – BOTH said ‘I thought I will die at 76-77, my father died at his age of 74, I did not [...]

Financial security comes from net worth. Net worth from smart investing

For many generations we have believed what we own (i.e. items on which we are allowed to put our names) are our assets, and monies that we owe are our liabilities. It took Robert Kiyosaki to tell us that assets that put money in our bank are our real assets – equity shares, rental property, [...]

Retire Rich Invest Rs. 40 a day!

About the Book : – To most people retirement is an age. It of course depends on your health, the company you work for etc. However in the first chapter I would like to introduce you to the concept that retirement is an amount of money! After all, if you have that magical amount why [...]