Droplet Wealth

The original plan was to publish the Evergreen Budget blog that we put last year. But one of my acquaintances told me - "Dei, Budget la enna sonnanganu oru blog ah ezuthi share pannu". Instinctively I told her, we have a evergreen budget blog and will share that. But as an after-thought, I took her comments as "God's" nudge and decided to write one. Afterall I was getting alarmingly lazy at writing and needed a good nudge. So here’s the Droplet's Budget 2023 Nugget.   Ahem! Oh hold on! This is not about the tax regimes and neither about non Linked Insurance payouts soon attracting tax payments. These are almost common knowledge now. So what's the bigger take away for us from this Budget. It is "Spending". I pretty well know most of us here are PhD's in spending and that too not by doing some theoretical course but by hard labors of actually Spending more than we earn and can barrow! So what can we learn from Govt's spending ...

           Of course, we want to bring some fascinating information and deliver the same to you every weekend. So that you read it, love it, read it again, get inspired and get ready for a hectic working week ahead. But how much ever polite the Doctor might be, if the medicine is bitter then bitter it shall taste! Alright so what is all this about?  Last week was eventful but in un-wish-able way. We wanted to do this blog but not with the way, we are doing. The week that went by bought some news that made me sit and think about it. More so to reflect that as a blog for our readers.  1. Tuesday Morning I had 7 missed calls from the same number. One of my close friends called me to inform demise of Another Friend's mother. 2. Wednesday afternoon I got a message of a certain acquaintance passing away. This gentleman had some influence in my life, he gave me critical advice to me at difficult times in life, they have he...

We were worried as financial advisers about the budget. Of course the Union Budget because if the budget was perceived to the be good then the markets would rally and our investors will not get discounts on their Investments. Discounts are always good, Who knows it better than you guys! The fact is good business shall always thrive irrespective of the budget and when we choose to invest in equities we invest in businesses that will do well in future. Note that we have used the word "Perceived". Again most of the govt policies being good or bad are perceptions of the people. A good businessman would identify each of them as an opportunity. A classic example is Titan which when was forced to import Gold due to "Govt Policies", it started Tanisq and today Tanisq is one of the largest contributor to Titan's Profits.  So now lets look at the Budget from the view it would affect us.  1. As a (Citizen) Owner of the Country and  2. As a (investor) Owner of the Comp...

We just put up a whats app status and One of the replies inspired us to make that into a blog.  Of course, like with all things @ Droplet, this one is not related to Superficial things like Budget/macro economics. So if you want to know our feedback on this year's budget, here it is -  ---N-----O-------C-----O-------M------M--------E---------N---------T-------S--- It is that. Because, in our fiefdom of Personal Finance, such things do not matter. Well then, let us use this opportune time to turn your attention to a more important budget, that is your  P ersonal budget .  Below are a few simple things that you should deliver on if you are want to make your country (ie., Family) Rich, Prosperous & Wealthy.  1. Earnings - Make sure you have an active Income and work to increase that income by 10% every year. Improve you skill sets, shift jobs, start a part time venture, do anything (legal) and try to increase your income by 10% year on ...

As we beckon a new year, Droplet recommends 20 things that will help you turn a new page in your financial life. 1.  Have a monthly budget in place. 2.  Earn. Save. Spend. - Start early. Start immediately.  3.  Buy a term insurance covering 20 times of your salary. Helps your dependents largely during your absence. 4.  Have adequate medical insurance in place. You don't have to shell out cash in case of medical emergencies. 5.  Do not mix insurance with investments. 6.  Have atleast six months of your monthly expenses as contingency fund. 7.  Have a plan in place before buying a property. Such as location, accessibility, resources, so on. 8.  Don't buy a property due to peer pressure or societal pressure or for status. Buy only when you are ready and it is absolutely necessary. 9.   Buy real estate only if you have 30% cash for down payment. 10. Buy real estate only if you are confident that you would st...

A lot of us might be thinking about making part payments against our home loans. We suggest you look at the below table of savings before you take any such decisions -  For those not adept with numbers/tables, lets us clarify in simple sentences.  1. If we prepay 1 lac of our home loan at the beginning of each year for 5 years. Our Total "Interest Savings" come to about INR 5 lacs for a period of 15 years. 2. If instead of prepaying the home loan, we choose to invest the same in an equity mutual fund, then a fund returning 12.5% per annum, would help us create a corpus of 20 lacs. 3. If instead of prepaying the home loan, we choose to invest the same in an equity mutual fund, then a fund returning 10% per annum, would help us create a corpus of 15 lacs. Before we complete - here are the few reasons why r ecommend delaying the Pre-Payment of the home loan - 1. The Prepayment can be used to create your retirement corpus. 2. Locking up your savings...

C lick here to read in Tamil We know so many people that have a home loan. How much ever they try to, they still pay a minimum of 40% to 90% of principal as Interest to the lender. We delved about this and wanted to give our readers a plan that helps them reclaim the interest portion.  We have normally noticed that most of the home bought are about 40 lacs. WIth 20% down payment, the loan amount comes to 32 lacs. On a loan taken for 15 years at 8.6%, the EMI works out to be INR 31,700. If the loan is duly completed in 15 years, the total interest paid is 25 lacs. Now we have to do plan to get this 25 lacs back.   But the plan is good only if there is no extra payout that the borrower has to make. So we suggest that you extend the loan tenure to 20 years. This will save you 3,700 per month in EMI. Next, Invest the EMI savings in a good equity fund for 20 years. Let's see what happens now.  As one can see by simply managing one's investme...

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...

Now, those of you who read the title and thought you already knew this and hence you are right, you are wrong. Those of you who think the title is wrong, you are still wrong. So what is right then? You have come this far, so read on...   We were meeting one of our clients and they were really excited about getting their financial planning in place. With usual questions of what would happen to their money in case the Markets fall among others, the meeting went well. We thought we did a good job of enlightening this couple. Just then the bomb dropped- the bomb being a Question -  "What if I suddenly want to take my money out?"  All the enlightenment down the drain it went...  The first time investors, please note that in case you are investing in markets thinking that you will be rich overnight. Forget it, cos If you were that lucky, You would have been already married to Isha! But you are only as lucky as reading this blog ;)  Below is the check...

                Investing is simple but not easy. Meaning, anyone can step into a broking firm open a demat account and start investing. However, in reality not all those who have a demat account or someone professionally qualified have succeed dramatically in the equities market. If knowledge is the only required criteria then all the chartered accountants & finance professionals would have been millionaires and minting money on their investments.                When asked about investments & knowledge, Warren Buffet candidly replied – “If book knowledge made great investors, then the librarians would be all rich”. Ideally, it is the behavior, which differentiates successful investor from the rest of the world.                               ...

Disclaimer - This blog has nothing to do with the below book. But it has got everything to do with "Rich Dad & Poor Dad". We all want to be rich but hardly 1% actually make it there. At Droplet our endeavor is to make every person investing with us to be Rich. Because, believe us, becoming rich is not that tough, it's very simple and boring. But most of us blame it on our Parents for not giving us the kind of launchpad (Like inheritance, Degree from Fancy college, things, etc.,) to become rich. Include those of you who say "Avanukku enna, avanga Appa sambachu-vechu irukkaaru..."  Before we proceed to say anything we want to bring to you 2 real stories from our beloved place ie., the Stock Market.  Of course one of the companies is Rich Dad's and Another is Poor Dad's. Below is the Sales that these companies have recorded in the last 10 Years.    As you can see the 1st company had started with huge sales figures and gradually...