8 Investing Insights

Billionaire investor and author Howard Marks co-founded Oaktree Capital Management, which is one of the world’s biggest distressed-debt firms. A renowned contrarian, his insightful assessment of market opportunity and risk are well known in the investing world. Here are a few pointers from his time-tested, fundamental philosophy. 1. Grasp the essence of contrarianism. When others […]

New Education

“The illiterate of 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and re-learn.” – Alvin Toffler 1) It’s high time that we learn about compounding, unlearn about investing in fixed deposits for the long term and re-learn about equity investing for the long term. 2) It’s […]

Financial management for single women

The manner in which the majority of people live these days is significantly diverse thanin days of past generations. People generally wait much longer in life to marry and have families. Considering this, many women will be single for at least a part of their adult lives. Also considering the current rates of divorce, there […]

Growth through over borrowing – a wrong practice

Taking debt to grow is actually as ridiculous as it sounds. Unfortunately it did not really sound too ridiculous to the experts and policy makers of the western world.  But the truth is that it is a flawed business model as at some point of time or the other the debt would need to be […]

Will, Codicil and Probate

Let us unravel the intricacies of Will, Codicil, Probate and other related terminologies and its importance. A Will is a document which ensures that your wishes with respect to your assets and property are followed after your death. There often arise problems and complications when a person dies without a Will. Yet we put off making […]