Have you Planned for your Child’s Education – Their Bright Future?

Sahayak Associates- Financial Planner

Children are parents’ treasure and their most precious gift. “The Joys of parents are secret; and so are their grief and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other” wrote Francis Bacon, in the sixteenth century, in his essay on “On Parents and Children” There comes a time in your […]

Where Are You Investing?

Where Are You Investing

Good morning everybody, we hope you and your family are safe, taking care and staying at home. This period has been a period of introspection and rethinking for most people. We have been receiving a lot of queries from a lot of investors regarding “What is the current market scenario,where are we investing today”. Most […]

Wealth Lessons from Guru Nanak Dev Ji

Wealth Lessons from Guru Nanak Dev Ji

Five centuries after the passing of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, his words still resonate with his followers. As in all areas, his teachings related to money and wealth are also as relevant today as when he originally preached.  On his 550th birth Anniversary today, lets recollect and learn from what he taught about wealth. In the […]

Why is Market Sentiment so poor..??

Why is Market Sentiment so poor

Of late, despite a record mandate for the ruling government, relatively benign macros, low oil prices, reasonably good monsoon, falling interest rates, low inflation, fiscal prudence by the government and many such favourable factors, the sentiment remains poor. In terms of year-to-date performance of the top 50 equity markets in the world, we are now […]

What To do in the Equity market now?

What To do in the Equity market now

In recent times, if the sea of red on your portfolio statement is prompting you to lose faith in equity investing, your mind is telling you to stop your SIPs and go back to FDs, just remind yourself of, why you began to invest in equity in the first place.If you started your equity-fund SIPs […]

Inflation & Taxes… The Corpus destroyers

Just remember the wonderful times, when The banks used to give an interest of 12% and more on an FD, There was no TDS and no mandatory PAN linkage, no taxes to be paid and the corpus was doubling in every five to six years.  On top of that, petrol was in single digits, the […]