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Human Life Value Calculator

March 23, 2011 1 Comment

Wealthymatters.com In case of our demise we would all love to have provided well for our near and dear ones. A Human Life Value Calculator is a nice place to begin planning how to do so.A very enthusiastic insurance agent might tell you that various insurance products are the best way to provide for all these needs.This is strictly not so.Think if you want to provide for a child’s college education you do not need to buy an expensive children’s education plan but can for example use a plain term deposits.Here is a link to a fairly comprehensive Human Life Value Calculator: http://www.personalfn.com/tools-and-resources/financial-calculators/hlv-calculator.aspx .Remember to put in future values of the goals of your dependents.

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Interesting Chindia Cartoon

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Enjoy!

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The Difference Between Business And Philanthropy

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” If you open a restaurant , and the public does not like your food , you will know . If you do the wrong things in philathropy , you don’t get a feedback from the market system . ”

——- Warren Buffett

I was very glad to hear these words today.The Buffett-Gates fortune is huge and I worry about how it will influence Public Policy in India.We have been too uncritical of Western ideas in the past ,adopted them with over-enthusiasm and have lived to regret it.Eg.Population Control,Green Revolution etc.I am glad that Buffett is aware of the implications of bad philanthropy.

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India Emerged

March 23, 2011 1 Comment

I found these words of Warren Buffett in today’s newspaper.I guess it’s time for us Indians to celeberate a bit.

” I don’t consider India as emerging market , I consider it as a very big market . But if you look at what many classify as emerging market , the business tends to be much smaller . We need to invest billions of dollars and that is very tough in emerging markets . ”

—— Warren Buffett