PPF vs ELSS vs NPS Every February and March, the same scramble happens. Millions of Indians realize their Section 80C investments for the year are incomplete, and they have weeks — sometimes days — to decide where to put their money. PPF vs ELSS vs NPS A LIC policy someone’s cousin is selling? Most people […]
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Every March, the same conversation happens in office break rooms across India: “Which regime are you on this year?” Most people answer with a shrug — they picked whatever their employer defaulted to, or copied a colleague’s choice, or just kept doing what they did last year. None of those are good reasons and because
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At 30, my best friend Rahul and I sat at a Bangalore cafe with the same dilemma. Both IT professionals. Both earning ₹1.4 LPM. Both newly married. Both under massive family pressure to ‘finally buy a house and settle down.’ Rahul caved. He put ₹15 Lakh down on a ₹95 Lakh flat in Whitefield, took
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Last month, Priya called me. Again. If you’ve been following FinMeetra’s blogs, you know Priya — she’s the 32-year-old Hyderabad IT professional from my ₹10 Crore Retirement Roadmap story. We had reverse-engineered her path to ₹10 Cr at age 60: ₹19,000 monthly SIP with a 10% yearly step-up. She was excited. She started. Three weeks
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Last year, I had dinner with two old college friends. Both 38. Both still in Bangalore. The first — Ravi — earns ₹2 LPM at a top MNC. Designer watches. Luxury SUV. Premium 4-BHK rental in Whitefield. Vacations in Europe. By every visible metric, he’s ‘winning at life.’ The second — Mehul — earns ₹80K/month
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In January 2015, I started my first SIP. ₹5,000 a month in a popular Large Cap fund recommended by my bank’s relationship manager. I was 28, freshly employed, and excited. ‘Slow and steady wealth,’ the brochure said. I imagined steady 12% returns, compound interest doing its magic, and crores rolling in by retirement. That’s what
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