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Why Women Make Better Investors?

“If you’re not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.” – Suze Orman, American financial advisor, author and podcast host. Getting more education, pursuing a career, combining employment with family life – these are just some factors that have enabled women to enjoy greater financial independence, earn more, and save more as a result. In my list of family, friends, and clients, women investors comprise not more than ten percent. However, on average, due to some positive traits, the results of their investments beat that of men. Below mentioned are some of the traits. Let's reinforce them!  1. Stick to the comprehensive financial plan In my experience, once you set the right return expectations, educate women on risks involved, explicitly mention them in the investment policy statement, they stick to the same financial plan unless the goals change. Traditionally, women have cult towards physical gold and real estate as preferred ...

Are you prepared? The need of an emergency fund

How many of you would have thought of the lockdown due to COVID 19? The importance of emergency funds has never been apparent. Recently I read,  65% of home buyers expected to default on their installments . Well, events like COVID 19 are extremely tail events.  Nassim Nicolas Taleb in his book "The Black Swan: The Impact of Highly Improbable" defines a Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable It carries a massive impact We explain it in such a way making it less random Why we do not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until they occur? By nature, humans are not hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities.  We focus on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into account what we don't know.  Just imagine - what if lockdown is extended to a total period of three months? There arises the need for an emergency fund. In this blog - let's ...