But even among the very rich there is always the lingering doubt if the money they have is sufficient. What is sufficient? What is being rich? What does it take to call yourself ultra-wealthy?

The experience of watching the first season nearly 8 years back and the journey with the characters (or at least whoever is left!!) over these years will occupy a permanent place in memories of GOT addicts. The journey, like investing, has some parallels.

Some investors nullify the benefits of an SIP, by making the wrong moves.

When markets tend to go through their occasional drops, the people who come out on top are often those who kept on investing as if nothing has happened. They had the wisdom to realize that they can’t predict when markets will go up nor when they will go down.

A quick look at the returns of BSE’s sectoral and thematic indices shows that the sectors which have done well in the period between 2014 and now do not include sectors like capital goods, manufacturing, infrastructure, realty, power, and PSUs where most of the policy action has happened. In fact, these are some of the worst performing sectors.

The per capita income itself is growing at about 10% annually. On the other hand, ‘basic needs’ like food has already been met for most of the population and will not grow at the same pace. Most likely, basic needs will grow in line with inflation or less.

ELSS is one of the most popular instruments for saving on taxes. With its impeccable track record of beating inflation hands down to its lesser lock-in period (of three years), ELSS as a savings instrument has scored over PPF, Bank fixed deposits and other tax-saving instruments. However, investors need to guard themselves against some common mistakes committed while investing into ELSS.

Many people have a number in their heads which makes up their dream corpus but rarely do they consider if this dream corpus will actually allow them to maintain their lifestyle, years later.

For an overseas education, you are looking at a tuition expense upwards of Rs 25 lakhs a year depending on the destination and nature of the course.

We hope to make this Women's Day about the step that you take to achieve financial independence and empower others around you as well.

Being lucky, seems totally illogical and unscientific and as a result the human mind rejects the possibility of developing the art of being lucky. On the other hand, Dr Richard Wiseman did a detailed study on the psychological difference between lucky and unlucky people and wrote about it in his book “The Luck Factor”.