Droplet Wealth

 Whats the connection between Sports, History and Expectations and more importantly with what our line of business is - "Wealth Creation". Well, you will figure out soon. 1st lets cover the history part of the story. Below are the 3, 5 & 10 Year Returns of the Nifty50, Nifty Midcap 150 & Nifty Smallcap 250. Quite handsome returns aren't they?  Now lets talk Sports and more specifically 2 sportsperson -  Alastair Cook  - the Test Great Yuvaraj - The White ball Wonder Cook was a test match great & Yuvi was a white ball wonder, made for big tournaments. Both have achieved so much in the respective formats. Imagine, if these two had a conversation what would that go like -  Well it happened in May 2015 when all of Yuvraj's heroics were a little history but he was still hot property in IPL and Cook has just gone past 10,000 Test runs -  So, here's a winner of 2 World Cups, Man of the Series in one of them talking to one who never even got the chance ...

 The buzz word for the last few months has been - "Tariffs" In the last few months, there has been so much written, spoken and discussed about tariffs. On the day the tariffs were announced the market tanked. There has been so much drama and thorough entertainment. However, if you look at the actual Nfty movement - Nifty was 23,250 a day before tariffs were announced and today it is 24,750 up roughly 6.5%,that's a full year's interest on my FD! There have been quite a few of us who have taken decision to participate or not to participate due to Tariff  'Trump'-trums. So much for hardly a movement on the needle!               Time to remind you that at Droplet we always write about Personal Finance. Given that Tariff is the buzz word, its the perfect time for us to inform our readers about the tariffs that actually affect their personal finances, the rest is - Just entertainment.  #1 Starting Late  Tariff      ...

  Knowledge is commoditized today. For anything and everything, we refer google. These are times, even when we have an ailment, we do not go to the doctor 1 st , we google 1st then go to the doctor and tell the doctor what’s our probable problem based on the symptoms we have.   So much so that a Doctor came up with a funny fee structure like below -  Is this limited only to “Others” and “Medical advice”. No, When I put myself in that scene, I am too like that. Each time I have to decide about something, Either I will discuss about it with close associates and then Google or the other way around but googling is not going away! When I think about it, I google more to vet the information I have got from others and I have never vetted the information google gave me! It seems I trust google more just like most others around me.  So the last week IPL started and I was asked to initiate Fantasy league Mails we play within our office. The game is all about predicting the w...

Gold is in a phenomenal bull run. Since the beginning of this year, its up 10% and in last year or so it has gone up by 34%, Since the Covid days its up a full 106 % and since 2014, its up almost 200% (~195%). Given these kinds of returns, it’s natural that we get excited and want to jump ship from one asset class to other or over allocate to an asset class. To make matters worse, the Equity returns over the last 18 months have tumbled, making Gold returns look all the more mightier.  So, its not really a bad time to “Stress Test” Gold and see if it’s really Glittering?  We are firm believers that any investment that we make should be looked at from a long-term view meaning starting with a minimum 5 years and then we move on to higher periods. As soon as the investment is ear marked for a long term period, its natural that the investment is made in to equity as we are again firm believers that over longer periods of time , equities outperform other asset classes.  Th...

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu     And so we started in 2018. What to us back then was passion turning into a hobby. Passion about stock markets, Equity Investments, creating wealth. The more we spoke about it, the more people got attracted to us seeking opinions & Investment advices more so with the aim of making quick money. We realised the folly that common man commits and wanted to put them on the right path by giving them right guidance through proper financial planning. With this motto, we reached our Milestone#1 - Founding Droplet Wealth.                                                        As the days passed, a lot our acquitances became our clients and they realised the beauty of Equity investments, the importance of financial plan and significance of having a ...

 2023-2024 is very interesting period and for a very unusual reason. The reason being a lot of flagship funds of some very famous Asset Management companies completed or crossed 20 Years. Considering the fact that we always tell - Equities should only be considered as a Long Term investment tool, 20+ years truly signifies "Long Term". Before we move on, here is an sample marketing material that is circulated widely to show the growth of the capital invested - One thing that caught our eyes was - How the material shows today's value in Crores. Largely it is due to aspriations of today's generation wanting to be crorepathis and rightly so.  But for a common man, the question is always how much investment has to be made to reach that "Crore" Mark. The materials we presented above talks about 1 lac becoming 2 Crore in 26 years. Given how our mind works, we quickly jump to a conclusion that we just need to invest 1 lac and we will get 2 Crores years later...