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This generation of Indians has an extremely difficult task in supporting their retirement. Recently, every conversation about retirement in India has devolved into a dispute about whether the New Pension System or the Old Pension Scheme is preferable. However, this topic is meaningless to 96% of Indians because the Central and State governments employ just approximately …
While most Indians are financially unprepared for retirement, many are unaware of the gravity of the situation. In a recent poll, just 20% of respondents said that real retirement planning should begin before the age of 30. On average, respondents surveyed were unable to visualize the retirement corpus that they would need at the time …
While the vast majority of Indians are monetarily unprepared for retirement, many are actually unaware of the gravity of the situation. According to a poll, just 20% of individuals believe that real retirement planning should begin before the age of 30, and many of them have no clue how much retirement corpus they would need when …
‘Sequence of returns’ risk refers to the possibility of your portfolio experiencing negative returns later on in your working years and/or early in your retirement years. This risk arises from the order in which your investment returns take place. It is especially important in the five years before and five years following retirement, known as …
Significant breakthroughs in healthcare have prolonged people’s lifespan, mostly in wealthy countries. People who do not have appropriate personal savings or pensions risk outliving their retirement assets! Those who are experiencing an economic crisis in their finances may decide to leave retirement and return to employment on an intermittent, part-time, or full-time basis. This is done …
‘Broke Millennial’ (2017) is a sensible personal financial handbook meant to assist cash-strapped individuals in their 20s and 30s in planning for the future. Complete with easy-to-use yet powerful advice, this book will help you quit barely getting by and begin to prosper both personally and financially. This book’s author, Erin Lowry, is based in …
The majority of us strive for financial freedom during our working years. In actuality, having a solid strategy in place is the only way to fulfil your aim to become self-sustaining financially. Although the term “financial freedom” may have different meanings to different individuals, it is simply a condition that is attained when a person …
‘I Will Teach You to Be Rich’ takes a firm stance on prudent banking, saving, spending, and investing. The book emphasizes that you do not have to be a pro to get wealthy. All you need is a strategy and a few techniques. The author, in this book, teaches you the importance of saving as early …
Before even starting this blog article, I would like to give a heads-up on how did I arrive at this figure of Rs. 50,000. In India, the median average income is Rs. 5 lakhs per annum. This arrives at approx. Rs. 50,000 per month. Hence if a person gets one month salary as his annual …
Let’s start by defining what “frugality” is. Frugality is the attribute of being modest, thrifty, cautious, or economical in how one uses finite resources, such as food, time, and money, and how one avoids wasting anything by going overboard. It involves the prudent management of financial resources in particular. Frugality is characterised in an economic sense …