The stock market offers numerous pathways for individuals looking to grow their wealth. Among these are your age-old long-term investing, more glamorous short-term trading, and then the highly risky speculation. And while each has distinct characteristics and risks, at times…
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I was recently quoted in Economic Times WEALTH (3-9 June 2024) in the Q&A section where a panel of experts answers readers' questions related to various aspects of their personal finances. The exact question and the answer - Here is…
The elections are drawing to a close and there is a lot of speculation about what the outcome will be. To be honest, no one knows anything (or can predict with 100% surety) but people do have strong opinions which…
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IRDA has released a new circular named Master Circular on IRDAI (Insurance Products) Regulations 2024 - Health Insurance on May 29th, 2024. This circular introduces significant changes to the health insurance industry in general and to your personal health insurance…
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I was recently quoted in Economic Times WEALTH (20-26 May 2024) in the Q&A section where a panel of experts answers readers' questions related to various aspects of their personal finances. The exact question and the answer - Here is…
Read More A 35-Year Old Looking to Build Rs 5 Crore corpus by Retirement || Quoted (Economic Times)
What is the Cost Inflation Index (CII) for the Financial Year (FY 2024-25) and AY 2025-26? Cost Inflation Index (CII) for FY2024-25 is 363 Cost Inflation Index (CII) for the previous year, i.e. FY2023-24 was 348. The CII Number for…
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Arguably the greatest investor of our lifetimes, Warren Buffett has another passion (apart from investing). And that is – the card game of Bridge. And from what is known in public domain, he engages in the game at least four…
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My views on this topic were recently published in a Mint column: You are already aware of the differences between active and passive funds. And if you are active on social media like X (erstwhile Twitter), you would also know…
Read More Is There a Place for Both Active & Passive Funds in your Portfolio? (Mint Column May 2024)
Investing in the wrong financial products can be more costly than paying for professional advice on where to put your money. The people who are wealthy (or in simple words, rich) understand it quite well and hence, do have their…
Read More What Happens if you Avoid taking Advice & get into Wrong financial products?
I was recently quoted in Economic Times WEALTH (29 April to 5 May 2024) in the Q&A section where a panel of experts answers readers' questions related to various aspects of their personal finances. The exact question and the answer…
A vast majority of the people have no understanding of the real spirit and more importantly, the technicalities of why Bitcoin actually came into existence. At least some of you who are technically-inclined may have read Satoshi’s original Bitcoin whitepaper.…
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Note - Advisory regarding Investor Awareness Dear Reader I am reaching out to you today, with an important message: It has been brought to my notice that there a few entities using similar sounding names (with the word ‘Stable’) to…
I was recently quoted in Economic Times WEALTH (8-14 February 2024) in the Q&A section where a panel of experts answers readers' questions related to various aspects of their personal finances. The exact question and the answer - Here is…
My views on this topic were recently published in a Mint column. Recently I was talking to a not-so-old-but-in-late-40s uncle of mine. And as always happens with me (being in the financial advisory space), the topic of investments came up.…
Read More How Much Should You Allocate to Smallcap funds? (Mint Column April 2024)
Unless you are an ultra-conservative person, just keeping the money in cash or bank deposits will never help you beat inflation. You have to invest in assets/instruments that have the potential to generate good returns and beat inflation consistently in…
Read More Investing isn’t About Avoiding Risks. But also, not like Gambling
