If you are not there tomorrow

Recent events have shown us that life is very unpredictable. Your world can change in a matter of seconds. While the inevitable cannot be avoided, you can better prepare your family for such an eventuality. Listed below are some things which come to mind. Feel free to add to this …

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Buying Gold Coins

Does anyone buy gold coins during festivals or other occasions from here ? Any tips/tricks on what to check when buying gold coins here ? Any recommendations on which stores have better quality etc ? Here’s an old post related to special occasion spending 🙂 Special Occasion spending Haven’t bought …

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Facebook (FB) IPO

Facebook is going IPO in next few days. We had started a similar post during LNKD IPO which proved very popular (31 responses). So its but natural that we start a post to capture the mother of all IPOs. As compared to LNKD offering, this time folks who have a …

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Trefis – Breaking Up the Stock Price

Check out http://www.trefis.com. It helps you understand how a company’s products affect its stock price. Basically it gives a break up of how much percentage of the stock price is based on which product of the company. Based on that it gives a “Trefis” Price for the stock price which …

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Online Brokerage

Whether you trade frequently or a few times a year, each transaction has costs associated with it. Depending on your broker, these costs may be a small part or a big part of your total cost of investing….

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ICICI vs Remit2India

Have you use either ICICI or Remit2India service for ACH money transfer? This service transfer money from ur existing US bank account to ur existing Indian Bank account. One doesn’t need to open new bank account with ICICI or Remit. If you have used such service any recommendation, good/bad experience? …

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