Droplet Wealth

There are a set of genuine standard questions shot at us from people whoever we have met so far -  Will my capital be safe? Will I seriously make money? How do you say I will make money if I stay invested for a long period? My money in a fixed deposit or LIC is always safe or at least my capital is protected.   Mutual funds are risky. So... WILL I LOSE ALL MY MONEY? This clearly indicates how fearful people are towards equity-related products. We are so tired of answering them with all the possible answers to ensure that they understand it better. Yet, the fear has not moved away. So we thought of writing a blog with an object of making everyone know what will happen to his or her money and whether MF is risky or not! Point 1 - Never put your money anywhere for a period of 20 to 25 years with the intention of protecting your capital alone.  Point 2 - By doing so, you are forcing your money to lose its value.  Point 3 - You have inve...

Everything is associated with Risk. Even NPS does. What matters the most is how long you stay invested. We read an interesting article about NPS and thought of sharing it with our readers. Read on -  Pension funds have marginal exposure to the distressed firm - Many debt funds with the mandate to invest in corporate debt securities have been left saddled with bonds issued by the indebted IL&FS and Essel group companies, resulting in a sharp erosion in their net asset values (NAVs).  While the exposure of mutual funds has been making headlines, the holdings of other investment vehicles have been largely been under the radar. A  BusinessLine  analysis shows that pension funds under the National Pension Scheme (NPS) and Atal Pension Yojana also hold these stressed assets, albeit to a smaller extent.  Scheme-C of the National Pension Scheme invests primarily in the fixed income securities issued by corporates. The portfolios of the ‘Scheme-C’ from the tier...

You need money to make money. Alternatively, you need a disruptive idea to make money for yourself and others. Not everyone would become an entrepreneur like Steve Jobs, Gates or Zuckerberg and hence let us say one needs money to make money. That is the critical resource more than anything is for those who aspire to retire and follow your passion or live a decent life post retirement. This is the reason why we say make your money work for you the moment you start earning!                 A millennial approached us for investment with an expectation of 15% risk free returns. We said, there is risk associated with it and you should invest quite long time (5 to 7 years) and should be OK to adjust for a year or two in case of any uncertainty. And we asked, do you have any savings? NO. Any loans? YES. End of the conversation the millennial said, will get back. After a month the millennial called us and said I'm not ready to take r...

Earlier, we wrote a blog  about investing 30K and earning an income of 50K every month. Most of them might have thought that they need such a huge amount to start investing. Nothing so! At Droplet, our wish is to be all-inclusive and that constant endeavor has resulted in this blog.  I think it is relatively safe to assume that an average middle-class earner can save 5K monthly. Now next we are trying to secure this Middle-class earner's future. In the Financial world, the future is always and always 15 years after . Hence we will plan with 15 years in our mind -  Droplet Team advises that a saver should split his investments into 2 parts one. One for Security and another for Savings.  Part One - Security-   As long as you are alive your family will live in your shade. But, God forbid, Something happens to you? Who would the family lean on? That's why Droplet recommends that the breadwinner's 1t "Investment" should be in " protecting his life...

We have seen 4 of them, A IT Company, A Paint Company, A Electronics company, A Bank.What is next? Droplets said let's get into your kitchens. Kitchen? Is wealth there too? Wealth says I'm there too as long as you want to create me. How magnanimous? Recently, there was a book published about how this company became a 6,500 Crore company. Imagine our selves just holding .1% of this company. How much is that going to be? Well, that will be a cool sum of 6.5 Crores. That is the power of equities and Power of Compounding .  What company is that? As usual, there is a clue in there.  A Small History of the Company -  It was incorporated as a private limited company on October 22, 1955, in Madras  It is known for its innovative marketing strategy, be it distributing pamphlet from a helicopter in the fifties or introducing the exchange scheme Became a deemed public company on June 15th, 1988. (Meaning available for public investment) Announces land...