Disciplined financial planning serves as the prerequisite of leading a financially secured retirement life. However, this hardly gets followed in most of the cases. Although retirement planning sounds a bit scary and confusing to most people, this anxiety can be entirely removed by avoiding the most common retirement planning mistakes committed by people. Today we are going to take a look at...
Emergency Fund as the word itself says it is a fund which can be utilised in case of an emergency. Emergency can come anytime. You will not know in advance what unforeseen event is going to knock on your door. It could be a job loss or medical emergency with any family member or yourself. In the worst case it could be an unexpected demise of an earning member in the family. The interesting...
Retirement planning is absolutely necessary so that you have a corpus at hand when you retire and need funds to meet your lifestyle expenses. As you plan for your retirement you have to factor in many questions like, how will you streamline your debt? Or how will you arrange for your medical bills? Or probably other aspects like estate planning. As individuals, we want a comfortable and...
Coronavirus outbreak has impacted the entire world in more than one way. Every human being has felt the effects of covid-19, be it socially, financially or on health. COVID-19 cases crossed 19 lakhs globally and around 1.25 lakhs turned fatal. In India, the number of cases is in control but still has in 3 weeks crossed 11,000 mark from just 550. The growth in covid-19 cases is increasing...
I still remember my childhood days, when my mother would give me pocket money only if I did the house chores. She would tell me that half of it, I could spend, while the other half, was put into my piggy bank or should I say ‘KHAZANA’. Well, of course, now we have banks for that. Yes, those were the good old days. I think everyone knows how important it is to save and invest, given the...
The most vital planning that one needs to design is how to secure his/her retired life. Everybody will undergo this crucial stage of life, but, if you plan for the same in a better manner, your retirement life can be smoother. Especially in India, since the economy is highly dynamic and there are so many products which claim to provide you financial security even after you retire, you...
Whether you are going to be retired at the end of your long professional career or just wish to take voluntary retirement only to enjoy life and freedom from compulsory professional obligations, at the time of your retirement what you invariably require is financial security or a lump sum corpus of money that can take care of all your expenses for the rest of your life. Well, there are several...
Retirement planning requires careful and systematic planning. As we shift from one stage of life to another, from wealth accumulation to spending phase, we need to change our strategy. It requires us to select and follow right strategy pre and post retirement. In pre-retirement period we need to avoid common investment mistakes which may in turn hamper our post retirement life. To ensure we...