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Financial Planning And Investment Planning

June 12, 2018 2 Comments

Financial Planning is the process of meeting one’s life goals through the proper management of personal finances.

Sound financial planning involves 6 steps :

1.Establishing short, medium and long term life goals.

2.Tabulating assets and liabilities.

3. An evaluation of the current financial position to assess the distance to goal achievement.

4.Developing a plan that shows the way for achieving different goals

5.Implementing this financial plan

6.Monitoring and reviewing this financial plan at least yearly and making adjustments when needed. Read more of this post

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Taking A Personal Loan To Buy A Home

May 31, 2018 Leave a comment

wealthymatters Now the general idea is that a body takes a home loan to purchase a house and a personal loan to defray marriage related expenses ,to take that vacation in Europe etc…..

Home loans are always secured loans. So the rate of interest generally tends to be much lower than almost any category of loan. And then of course for being such a good child ,the government gives you tax breaks too ! But there are cases where a personal loan is your best way forward to become a home-owner. Consider the following cases:

1.A place like Vasai-Virar might be one of the fastest growing regions in the MMR when it comes to lower priced homes that could also potentially make great capital investments. But start making enquiries and you will start finding out that a whole lot of properties are “Collector Passing” and that apart from the odd co-operative bank or the occasional patpedhi, no home loans to purchase such properties is possible from most lenders. Moreover, the interest rates of loans from these sources makes personal loans from major banks look attractive. Read more of this post

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Fixed Deposits And Equities In The Barbell Strategy

May 26, 2018 Leave a comment

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If the all the risk-reward stories of the portfolio theory mutualfundwale don’t grab you, here’s an alternative strategy for the independent investor : The Barbell Strategy.

Here’s what it involves :

Building a portfolio that recalls a barbell. That is : On one side, there’s a basket of extremely safe investments. On the other side, there’s a basket of extremely speculative plays. The weight is distributed between two extremes, with almost nothing in the middle. Read more of this post

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Related Party Transactions

March 29, 2018 Leave a comment

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Here are the details of this corporate-banker nexus outed by ICICI Bank and Videocon investor Arvind Gupta.

Gupta’s curiosity was aroused by a 10 per cent coincidence he noticed in ICICI’s loans to Videocon group companies and foreign fund inflows into husband Deepak Kochhar’s firm NuPower Renewables.

NuPower Renewables was originally founded as a 50-50 JV between the Dhoot family and the Kochhar and Advani families .Chanda Kochhar’s brother is Mahesh Advani. Read more of this post

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#XRBIA Chembur Central – Making Lavish Living Affordable

March 17, 2018 Leave a comment

wealthymatters Mumbai is a city where real estate is so expensive that a lot of people, even those who are far from poor, make do with tiny homes in old dilapidated buildings and others resign themselves to living in far off suburbs in the MMR where homes are cheaper and then suffering the inevitable long commutes into the city.

Now the problem of living so long in an environment where we train ourselves to expect less by way of lifestyle, as an inevitable compromise to get on with the business of making money in Mumbai, is that we often forget to open our minds enough to ask if this much of compromise with the quality of life of ourselves and our children is really inevitable. For those of us living a cramped life in really old houses, are there no other locations where the houses are newer and the social infrastructure comparable to those in older neighbourhoods of the city ?And for those of us commuting for hours everyday, are there no better located homes, such that long commutes are cut short and we literally find time to actually live life in the Maximum City? Read more of this post