knowledge Archives – Vipin Khandelwal

Slay your Ravanas – Greed and Fear

October 11, 2016 by Vipin Khandelwal

“Can you please suggest me some mutual funds which will give high returns over the time period of 5 years?”

“Please tell me mutual funds that can give me 30% to 35% returns on an average.”

Two queries that I received in the past few days.

What’s this?

Unrealistic expectations!

Greed!

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“I don’t want to see even a single rupee negative on my investment.”

“…don’t want to invest in equity.”

“My portfolio has 37 schemes.”

What’s this?

Unrealistic expectations!

Fear!

Fear of missing out (FOMO)!

Greed and fear are two of the many faces of Ravana in your life.

Now that the Dusshera of 2016 is here, I call upon you to slay them.

Investment in knowledge pays the best interest

May 5, 2016March 13, 2016 by Vipin Khandelwal

This is my 100th post on this blog.

What started as a humble attempt to share ideas, insights and tools on money and investments with my fellow readers, has now turned into a journey of knowledge and discovery.

This blog has its purpose in sharing knowledge that is informative, useful and actionable.

And for this 100th piece, I would continue with this purpose.

Usually we talk about money, personal finance and investments here but as you would agree that is not the boundary of knowledge. It extends far and beyond. In fact, it would be incorrect to limit knowledge.

My personal belief is that true knowledge is a mix of several subject areas, learnings from the brightest minds from various fields, which then is applied in real life and thus, sharpened by experiences.

Happy Deepawali – Let your light shine!

November 10, 2015 by Vipin Khandelwal

A few years ago, when I was on a road trip, my first stop was at Gandhinagar, Gujarat’s capital city. In the evening, since I had nothing to do, I strolled into the famous Akshardham temple.

I came to know of a sound and light show that was going to happen late in the evening. I bought the tickets. I had absolutely no idea what I was going to witness. It was one of the most spectacular sound and light shows I had ever seen. It is also known as the world’s first spiritual show of the kind.

sound, light, laser show at akshardham temple gandhinagar The show is based on the story of a conversation between Yama (the Hindu God of Death) and Nachiketa (a young boy). Nachiketa waited for 3 days at the doors of Yama, since he was out for work. When he returned, he wanted to compensate for the young boy’s wait. So Yama told Nachiketa to ask for 3 boons.

The first two were easy.