Most of you will not get any pension when you retire. The age of getting a safe, solid and a reasonable pension got over several years ago. So unlike our earlier generations who were lucky enough to get a pension,…
Read More In this ‘No Pension’ era, Do Not underestimate Retirement Planning
We are living longer than our previous generations. The average life expectancy of us Indians is around 69. (You can check it here yourself) But that’s the average. My guess is that life expectancy generally increases with income. At least…
Read More Increasing Gap between Retirement Age & Life Expectancy
You know this. Your 9-to-5 job is not exactly that. If you also account for the mental stress and mind-f***s you get, it is much closer to 24x7. Zoom out a bit and its 24x365. Zoom out a bit more…
I recently came across the following: Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a 100 - 200 feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York driving through the…
Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS) Or Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY). These are two popular investment options available for senior citizens of India in 2020. While SCSS has been in existence for several years now, the other one PMVVY…
I recently wrote a long thread on twitter about Financial Independence, Early Retirement and Financial Freedom. If you are on twitter, you can check it here. Since many readers aren't there so I thought I will publish those tweets as…
I recently got quoted a few times in Morningstar's coverage of how leading advisors are navigating the debt fund space. The context is the current on-going turmoil in the debt fund space. If you wish to know my thoughts on…
Read More (Quoted: Morningstar) How Advisers navigate the Debt Funds space?
Taking a 20% pay cut. Now, who would want that? No one. And it’s (obviously) not a great scenario to be in. But to be honest, the on-going pandemic and economic lockdown are gradually arm-twisting many companies/sectors to face the…
We live in unprecedented times. And times like this lead to interesting insights about various aspects of life. I came across a tweet yesterday (link), which said: Realized one thing in this Lockdown. Normal living expenses are very low. It's…
Read More Normal Living Expenses Are Low: Lockdown Realization (for F.I.R.E. guys!)
Note - This is a super long post. You may want to bookmark it if you want to read it later. When it comes to retirement planning in India, the NPS or National Pension System is slowly getting more and…
Read More What is NPS + How NPS Works in India: Detailed Guide (Updated 2020)
Voluntary Provident Fund or Public Provident Fund in 2020. Difference between VPF Vs. PPF and how to choose between the two? This was a dilemma when even I joined my salaried job for the first time more than a decade…
The name is Bond... Bharat Bond ETF! Sorry. I couldn’t stop myself from saying that. 😉 But the correct name of India’s first corporate bond exchange-traded fund (ETF) is Bharat Bond ETF and was launched in December 2019. This is…
Read More Bharat Bond ETF: All You Need To Know. Worth Investing?
Many NPS subscribers make the mistake of looking at just the Equity Returns of NPS and trying to make an assessment of whether NPS is giving good returns or not. But only considering returns Equity Funds (Scheme E) of NPS…
Read More Don’t look at Returns of NPS (Equity Scheme E) in isolation. Here’s Why?
As you already know, the National Pension System or NPS is designed to save for retirement by making a contribution during the work life. Though most people still don’t give retirement planning the importance it deserves (read why?), the government…
Read More Difference between NPS Active & Auto Choice (Updated 2020-21)
The biggest question of your financial lives. Isn't it? I know that you already have an answer in your mind for this. But is it the right answer? I wrote an article on this topic sometime back. Both retirement and…
