How to think and act in these trying times, for your personal finance.
Category: Savings
The 4-Q way of protecting your finances from coronavirus driven volatility
One of the questions all investors consider is how to spread their investments. This is super essential in a volatile economic environment that we are now being forced by coronavirus. Coronavirus is already sending stock markets across the world in a downward spiral, companies may find it difficult to service debt and hence affect bonds,… Continue reading The 4-Q way of protecting your finances from coronavirus driven volatility
Who moved my cheese? How to deal with changes in financial plans
The title is taken from a famous book as below. Even though it is meant to be a management philosophy, it applies to the subject of personal finance as well. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004CR6AM4&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_tIGqEbZ4SSXY6 Financial Planning does not work? There is a proverb in the military - Plans are good till the first bullet is fired. Some of… Continue reading Who moved my cheese? How to deal with changes in financial plans
The SAFE plan – Simple, Automated, Flexible and Efficient
Safety in financial world is an oft-repeated word, and is mentioned in contrast to risk and growth. We talk a lot about risk-return trade-off, safety of invested principal in long term and short term investments. There is another way of looking at Financial Safety. The SAFE plan described below is a way of setting up… Continue reading The SAFE plan – Simple, Automated, Flexible and Efficient
Afraid of investing? Not so simple either
There are two aspects of investing that are often in war with each other. Fear and Simplicity.
Five metrics of personal finance
This post gives a simple way to measure and track personal finance health and growth.
FinTech – can you be immune to it?
Technology is changing the landscape of personal finance. This post shows the different facets of Fin Tech and how to apply to your personal situation.
