My apologies for the prolonged delay in announcing the winner of the ERE-book giveaway. Finally managed to draw lots and the winner is Ashutosh Tewari. Congratulations! There will be another book giveaway next month. Next up on the giveaway list is I Will Teach You To Be Rich.
Amidst all the other hectic things going on in our lives, our individual Star Health Medi Classic policies completed their first policy anniversary. This happened way back in July. Since my annual expenses planning system works exceptionally well, I simply issued a check for the premium due. Seamless. I’d opted for individual policies to keep […]
They say: With a house things will go wrong. Our house, built through hard work by my dad, is around 30-years old. Except for cosmetic redecoration inside, everything’s generally been the way it always has (shows the quality of construction material used back then). But of late, the roof was beginning to show leaks here […]
I think we’re extremely lucky in this aspect. We don’t fight over money issues. D’s extremely creative and artistic; the art and craft she does are things that I can’t even think of imagining. But she’s least interested in managing personal and household finances. To her, a gilt would be something one is guilty of. […]
Something interesting I found in the comments archive and which I felt would benefit a wider audience. I once had a Savings Account with Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) through my employer. Once I shifted my job, I naively emptied the account to have a zero-balance and left it at that. About 6-years later, I got […]
From Value Research (emphasis mine): Unfortunately, a proportion of investors seem to have the expectation that an SIP is a sort of a magical device that can protect them from all losses. It’s not. An SIP means that you keep investing though the ups and downs of the markets, ensuring that at least part of […]
Consider these Risk Factors copied verbatim from a Unit Linked Health Insurance Policy ad that I happened to see on this blog itself (snarky comments mine): The premiums paid in unit linked plans are subject to investment risks associated with capital markets. (Means we’re going to have fun gambling on your health with your own […]
(I’d been meaning to write this post for quite some time but only got around to doing it now.) During the process of filing my Income Tax Returns for the last financial year, I discovered that the TDS (Tax Deducted at Source) Certificate — commonly known as Form 16A — issued by my Bank had […]
Whenever I travel abroad on work, I make it a point to activate International Roaming on my Airtel Postpaid connection. D and I effectively use “missed calls” as a communication mechanism without incurring those exorbitant roaming charges. Before my recent trip to NYC, upon activation, Airtel sent an email that had a couple of key […]
Update on 24-Sep-2011: My apologies for the prolonged delay in announcing the winner of the book giveaway. Finally managed to draw lots and the winner is Ashutosh Tewari. Congratulations! There will be another book giveaway next month. Next up on the giveaway list is I Will Teach You To Be Rich. Here’s the August, 2011 […]