All of us aspire to become rich but few of us get there. I used to wonder why that’s the case and I started figuring it out as I started paying attention to the financial habits of people and began reading about investing. These two dramatically changed my understanding about the steps to getting rich. Let’s talk money by Monika Halan is a rich knowledge resource that would help a working individual, especially the salaried class, to understand the importance of sound financial planning, specifically suited to Indian context.  ...[Continue Reading...]

‘Finance’ is one field where the sheer usage of the term could give jitters to few. Just like how food, cloth and shelter are the basic needs, knowledge of finance and its management are essential to every individual. Do you know what is certain about our life – the fact that it is uncertain! Sounds cliched but a fact is a fact. As the world is embracing pandemic, which resulted in job losses and downward spiraling economy, we also witnessed that the stock market hit rock bottom in March-April 2020 and as I write this post, is trading at all-time highs. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) best defines present-day world. How do we guard ourselves financially  in the VUCA world so that we can have a peaceful sleep at night? Morgan Housel has the answer in his book “The Psychology of Money”.

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