Achieving financial freedom or in more trendy terms the acronym FIRE (which stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early), need not be an unachievable goal. Like every other activity, one undertakes, be it education, a career, or even a hobby, all of these require dedication, persistence, and consistency. To achieve your goal of financial freedom [...]
Will you outlive your money in retirement?Lack of planning combined with a lack of prudence in investing appropriately for retirement could lead to the risk of you outliving your money. First of all, investors often tend to get the basic math wrong, one should always consider an age bracket of 85 to 90 years while [...]
Hindsight is 20/20 While 20/20 refers to clear vision, hindsight refers to a clearer understanding of a past event. But, considering its meaning and the actual happening in the year 2020, this expression is now more eye-opening than ever before. Words like unprecedented, mask up, remote working, ‘workcation’ or even ones like ‘anthropause’ have [...]
PPF is an attractive tax-saving investment vehicle that is available to the citizens of India. It was founded with the primary objective of providing a reliable retirement solution to the self-employed as well as for those individuals who are not covered by their employers’ provident funds. As a 15-year deposit account, it allows people [...]
There is a misconception that financial planning is only for the wealthy. Well! That is a myth. Being wealthy is not a pre-requisite for financial planning; in fact, it is vice versa. Wealth creation begins from the very first penny you earn and how you put it to use in the long run will [...]
All conversations regarding investments sail over the undercurrent of the risk and return tradeoff. This even plays a defining role in the purchase decision once investors have evaluated the amount of risk they will be exposed to when they choose an investment product. One of the key challenges to successful investing depends on mitigating [...]
Generally speaking, we are all aware of the importance of establishing multiple sources of income. There could be nothing better than having both active and passive streams of income flowing into our bank accounts. However, post-retirement we will inadvertently end up depending more on our passive income sources. In this article, we shall explore [...]
Despite the slowdown in the Indian economy, India added 34 new billionaires to Hurun Global Rich List of 2020. As astonishing as this sounds these HNIs haven’t become wealthy overnight. Wealth creation and its preservation take considerable effort and time. In our pursuit of wealth accumulation, we are often hasty and negligent in choosing the [...]
In an enlightening session with Mr. Sameer Desai and Mr. Hemen Bhatia of Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd., we gained deep insight into ETFs, its core philosophy, and strategies. From our past article, you may have understood what ETFs essentially is; Characteristic of an ETF is a combination of stocks and Mutual Fund [...]
Imagine the ability to hold a Mutual Fund that you could buy and sell during trading hours with the benefit of real-time trade prices like stocks. That’s precisely what Exchange traded funds or ETFs are, a combination of stocks and Mutual Fund schemes. The underlying portfolio of an ETF is an index, it is [...]
