Simple works. Complicated designs make your systems, your life decisions complicated. The US Navy discovered this simple fact in 1960, and what better way to remember the same but through an acronym: […]
Investment Plan: Use the KISS Principle
Stocks & Shares: Looking at Essel Propack
Essel Propack claims to be “the largest global specialty packaging company in the world”. Tell me, which product does not need packaging! Every product does. Essel Propack provides packaging solutions not only […]
144: Time to Quadruple
In the article “The Number 72“, we learnt how to guesstimate the time required for an amount of money to double if invested at a defined rate of annual interest. Click here […]
Getting Insured [Part II]
In the last article, we saw how Aadeshna calculated the returns on her mother’s “Cash Value” insurance policies. (Click here to access the article.) And she was shocked to find that not […]
Getting Insured [Part I]
One Sunday afternoon, Aadeshna’s mother brought up the topic of the investments she had made in her lifetime. Her mother had retired last year from the Indian Post Office. Most of the investments […]
The Number 72
Often we see investment advertisements which promise to double our money in (say) 9 years. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Or don’t you wonder sometime, in how many years your money would double, […]
