Category Archives: personal finance

Interest Rates: A Race to the Bottom?
Business / Economics / Economy / finance / Financial / interest rates / Investing / personal finance / Saving for retirement / US Government / US Markets / World Markets

Interest Rates: A Race to the Bottom?

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This month’s move by the Federal Reserve Bank to lower interest rates for the first time in a decade may prove to be a “boondoggle”. This was done on the backdrop of all the economic indicators in the U.S. posting continuously showing record employment, rising wages, all time historic high stock index prices, and record … Continue reading →

Capital Accumulation: The Holy Grail
Capital / personal finance / Saving for retirement

Capital Accumulation: The Holy Grail

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Every financial services guy I see touts some kind of common sense guide for “capital accumulation” targeted at young twenty and thirty “somethings”. Then there are always the guides for the 40-60 age groups that borders between crisis management and locking the windows. A lot of it makes sense and is really the realization similar … Continue reading →

Your financial health is up to you
Business / finance / financial health / Goals / personal finance

Your financial health is up to you

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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination,” said Oscar Wilde who was recently noted in a commentary on finances in Time Out Dubai magazine. An extremely successful and popular poet, author and playwright from the 1880s, Wilde was known for his lavish spending and indulgence of the diversions in life. He died … Continue reading →