Month: April 2011

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

Risk is harder to read
in Investing for Beginners

Almost every other day there’s a comment from someone who wants to know what the best investment is – one that will give him the highest return. There’s no inquiry about risk, and that’s not surprising because people new to investing don’t really understand or even think about risk. It’s only after you’ve burned your
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Free Perfios at TFL, Free Plan at Investologic, Gold Mania and Planned Chaos
in Links

Hemant is running a contest on his site where he is going to give away one free copy of PERFIOS which is a personal finance software – the entry rules are easy (as they usually are in these contests), so if you are interested then do check out his post. I’ve been playing around with
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Is it at least better than what you have today?
in Opinion

About 3 weeks ago I wrote about a working paper written by India’s chief economic adviser: Kaushik Basu in which he suggested that for a certain class of bribes which he termed harassment bribes – the bribe giver should be given immunity so that he can later on take action against the person who took
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NRO vs NRE Account
in NRI

Updated on Jan 9 2012 A few days ago I wrote about how you could open a NRE / NRO account while still abroad, and some people had a question on which is the better among the two. Like most other things – it depends on what your specific needs are but now the big
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