All You Need to Know About Retirement Planning in India

All You Need to Know About Retirement Planning in India

The average life expectancy of people has increased. Most people prefer living in nuclear families. At one point in life, everyone stops earning. Often, we find earning life and retired life are almost equal. Elderly parents do not like to depend on their children. They take care of their day to day expenses, medical care, ageing related issues and lifestyle expenses for two decades and more. Their financial freedom depends on their retirement planning at a much early stage of life. When to start your retirement planning Ideally, retirement planning must start the day one starts earning. In practice, you start paying …

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How Insurance can Protect You from Uncertainty in Your Life

How Insurance can Protect You from Uncertainty in Your Life

Life is uncertain. Insurance is for protection against uncertainty. So when we buy insurance, our objective is protection. In this blog, we cover everything you should know about insurance. How insurance works Let us begin with a simple story. There was a village beside a river. The river used to flood every year and four houses on average used to get destroyed due to the natural calamity. The village was such that all the houses were located within proximity to the river and they were all at an equal risk of damage. So all the villagers knew that four houses would break, …

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Why is financial planning important for our future?

Why is financial planning important for our future?

Financial planning gives a direction to our lives. Without knowing our finances, our goals and the timeline we expect to reach each goal, life moves like a rudderless ship.  A person, who knows the following facts, leads an organised life in terms of money matters than one who doesn’t know them clearly, despite whoever earns more: We all know a few facts, or we can know them easily – how do the sovereign bonds grow in the country (the risk-free rate) and how the consumer prices are growing (inflation). We all know the most certain in life is to die, but we do not …

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