Extra, extra! Good news is here and there’s no need to be puzzled anymore. On 2nd June, RBI reduced the key repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.25%, the third such cut in the year. Other banks are now expected to reduce their lending rates once more. Rahul, your average IT guy, was wondering… Read More »
Planning to get a home loan could make even Bruce Lee roll in his grave. But we ask him (and you) not to sweat it. Bruce Lee has no idea about these home loan options, and we bet you might have overlooked them too. Here are 5 alternatives that could Abracadabra your worries, and Alakazaam… Read More »
Amitabh Bachchan might be in trouble for endorsing Maggi, but we still trust him. After all, he asked us to get checked for TB, made sure every kid got Polio drops and told us to have Chyavanprash every day. These might not have been our favorite activities, but we still trust the Big B. He’s… Read More »
“Whatcha gonna do with all that junk? All that junk inside your trunk?” The Black Eyed Peas sung their way to fame with these blockbuster lyrics in the noughties. This may as well have been what Pallavi, who recently got married, sang hysterically when her mother used up all the cash gifts received during her wedding to… Read More »
Every person in a friend group usually fits a type. We have the whiners, the loud ones (that use even their hands to talk), the gym-junkies (#fitspiration), the slow bros, the shopaholic (who won’t stop talking about her new shoes), the Star Wars geek, the planner, the TV show binge watcher (that ruined many a… Read More »
What’s common between Mark Zuckerberg, Brad Pitt, Rupert Murdoch, Maria Sharapova, Heidi Klum, and you? That’s right. Nothing. Let’s it do it again. What’s common between Mark Zuckerberg, Brad Pitt, Rupert Murdoch, Maria Sharapova, and Heidi Klum? Right again. They’re stinking rich. Ergo, they don’t need to plan for their “retirement”. But, you do! So… Read More »
In Season 7 of the blockbuster TV soap ‘Desperate Housewives’, Lynette Scavo struggles with her two sons Porter and Preston who don’t know how to make themselves an omelette. And they’re pushing eighteen! Well, maybe your kids aren’t so bad and can make an omelette all by themselves. But do they know how to plan… Read More »
Plans without goals are like driving without a steering wheel – you can’t be accused of doing nothing but you have no way of knowing whether you’ll still be in one piece when you stop driving, let alone know whether you’ll reach your destination. So, quick! Here are 6 essential goals you need to lock… Read More »
Sunny Leone was once a practicing nun. There! We just did what gets done all the time – create a myth. The financial planning world is full of such myths (not about Sunny Leone, but hey, we like the way you think!) Here are five such myths. We can’t tell you who created them. So… Read More »
Here is the quaint tale of Singham, who thought he had done his bit for his personal financial planning when he identified his investment goals. Only, he made his investment choices rather randomly. And, here’s how he ended up. And, here’s what he’d have ended up with if he had matched his investment choices with… Read More »