The last 74 years’ independence set me thinking about the changes & progress our country has made. You like it or not, you notice or pass – the changes are for good. Awareness especially in Financial Planning has ever been so important as it is now. We need to spread Financial Planning Awareness, Financial DisciplineRead More
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How to Create Wealth? A DIY Series to Learn Wealth Creation Basics- Part -4
This is Part 4 of the series- How to Create Wealth – Do-It-Yourself Way. A recap- we learned how to Start Creating Wealth by calculating our Net Worth and identifying Assets & Liabilities in Part 1. Then we progressed to making Budgets, do Budgeting and knowing Savings potential in Part 2. We further went aheadRead More
Simplifying the Rule of 72
I am sure you know the thumb rule of 72. We all use it to know when we can double the money or what rate of returns we ought to earn to double our money. But do you know why 72 is used and not other numbers like 71 or 72? Well, it dependsRead More
Angelina Jolie & Household Budget
Won’t say Angelina Jolie is expert at budget, especially after hearing that her marriage ceremony with Brad Pitt cost millions, but this caught my eye when she said this in an interview with CNN in 2005- “Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third.” – Angelina Jolie Now, I am a huge fan ofRead More
All Questions Answered on Retirement Planning – Part 2
This is the second part, where all your questions on Retirement Planning are being answered, we plan to dig deep in terms of planning the retirement. There are questions like what’s the correct age to retire, what time plan should be implemented, who can assist me in planning etc… here we start one by one:Read More
Automated Savings Plan
Aren’t these two words “Savings” & “Automatic” antonyms? Can savings happen automatically? My answer is with you – No. Savings do not happen automatic because of the very human nature of “pleasing yourself first”. One tries to dodge all hard functions first and tries to shift/delay the real painful measures. But we all know savingsRead More