Money handling includes skills but it also goes deeper to emotions – Below are some common struggles and challenges people face around money: 1. Feeling stupid around money decisions 2. Avoiding numbers, cheque books, Bank account statements, insurance policies, investment Read More …
Category: Behavioral in investments
Market Timing and Selection

Market Timing and Selection To generate real-life returns, one must focus on: 1.Process and Planning 2.Asset Allocation 3.Diversification 4.Selection 5.Managing Your Behavior The portfolio composition can control only 10% of long-term real-life returns. 90% includes: 1.Your personal value-based plan 2.Percentage Read More …
Comparing with others

We are obsessed with comparing ourselves to others. This is pointless behavior, of course. How other people are doing has nothing to do with how you are doing. But it’s what we do. Researchers from Harvard gave participants two options: Read More …
Look Money as a Teacher

Your Money and You Look Money as a Teacher Money is always teaching you something. It is always revealing who you are and what’s important to you. In every moment, step by step leading your path, to who you will Read More …
Timing the market
Dear investors, Fear is normal but to act on that is a very bad option. In the short term, market returns are based on news and uncertainty about the future. The market cannot be timed successfully and getting out and Read More …
How clear financial goals help you stay away from anxiety, fear and jealousy?

How clear financial goals help you stay away from anxiety, fear and jealousy? Staying in a large apartment complex, in the IT hub of India, Bangalore and being a finance professional, I meet many people from across the country. During Read More …
Retirement Income Planning

Retirement Income Planning Most important: Two things Duration & Direction Duration- Retirement income should take care of a person life long. Direction – Our income should continuously rise throughout our lives. True safety is in preservation of purchasing power. Don’t Read More …
Don’t focus on the Best Investment, just become the best Investor

Don’t focus on the Best Investment, just become the best Investor – Most investors don’t understand that. There’s a difference between investment returns and investor returns. Imagine you are reading the newspaper and there’s an ad for a mutual fund. Read More …
Inner Resources + Outward Resources = Money Decisions

What are our Inner resources? Our Skills, Positivity, Honesty, Discipline, Persistence, Good health habits, Care & Dedication… Most important amongst all resources is SACRIFICE (of one’s time & energy) for loved ones Ability to earn income Capacity to save (saying Read More …
Husband & Wife – Know your Financial rights & duties

Feelings of future financial security matter a lot in any relationship, specially that of husband and wife. Two thing to strengthen your relationship – 1) If wife isn’t earning – Husband must regularly provide 10% to 15% of his total Read More …