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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Need Financial Analysis for this crisis …

A good story about economics...

It is August. In a small town on the South Coast of France, holiday
season is in full swing, but it is raining so there is not too much
business happening & Everyone is heavily in debt.

Luckily, a rich Russian tourist arrives in the foyer of the small local
hotel. He asks for a room and puts a Euro100 note on the reception
counter, takes a key and goes to inspect the room located up the stairs
on the third floor.

The hotel owner takes the banknote in hurry and rushes to his meat
supplier to whom he owes E100.
The butcher takes the money and races to his supplier to pay his debt.
The wholesaler rushes to the farmer to pay E100 for pigs he purchased
sometime ago.
The farmer triumphantly gives the E100 note to a local prostitute who
gave him her services on credit.
The prostitute goes quickly to the hotel, as she owed the hotel for her
hourly room use to entertain clients.
At that moment, the rich Russian is coming down to reception and
informs the hotel owner that the proposed room is unsatisfactory and
takes his E100 back and departs.

There was no profit or income. But everyone no longer has any debt and
the small town people look optimistically towards their future.

COULD THIS BE THE SOLUTION TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ? OR IS THERE A
CATCH HERE ??

Please leave your comments

Source of the above story unknown

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Kenny Roger- The Gambler

True Wording ..... I love the song. Life is a gamble.

"If you're gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done."

Monday, February 9, 2009

Power of Compounding – Get Rich Slowly

Power of Compounding – Get Rich Slowly

What Kind of Retirement are you looking for and at what age you would like to retire? IF you are in age group of 20-25 and you think its not the right time to think about retirement,If you are saying … I’ll think about it may be 5 or 10 years later. Think again. The more you wait the more you would have to pay. You may Delay your planning but the time will not delay.

Lets take a look at the two Friends Raj and Rohan. Raj starts to invest at an early age and invests 5000 each year for the 5 years and Rohan was enjoying all this time spending all his money on unnecessary things. 5 year later he also starts investing …now look below the table assuming 15% rate of return. Raj stops investing after 5 years and let his money grow without touching it till he is 50 while Rohan keeps investing till the end of 50 year. 

 

Raj

Rohan

 

Age

Annual Investment

Year End Value

Annual Investment

Year End Value

Rate of return

 

 

 

 

 

 

21

5000

5750

 

 

15

22

5000

12362.5

 

 

15

23

5000

19966.875

 

 

15

24

5000

28711.90625

 

 

15

25

5000

38768.69219

 

 

15

26

 

44583.99602

5000

5750

15

27

 

51271.59542

5000

12362.5

15

28

 

58962.33473

5000

19966.875

15

29

 

67806.68494

5000

28711.90625

15

30

 

77977.68768

5000

38768.69219

15

31

 

89674.34083

5000

50333.99602

15

32

 

103125.492

5000

63634.09542

15

33

 

118594.3158

5000

78929.20973

15

34

 

136383.4631

5000

96518.59119

15

35

 

156840.9826

5000

116746.3799

15

36

 

180367.13

5000

140008.3368

15

37

 

207422.1995

5000

166759.5874

15

38

 

238535.5294

5000

197523.5255

15

39

 

274315.8588

5000

232902.0543

15

40

 

315463.2376

5000

273587.3625

15

41

 

362782.7233

5000

320375.4668

15

42

 

417200.1317

5000

374181.7868

15

43

 

479780.1515

5000

436059.0549

15

44

 

551747.1742

5000

507217.9131

15

45

 

634509.2504

5000

589050.6001

15

46

 

729685.6379

5000

683158.1901

15

47

 

839138.4836

5000

791381.9186

15

48

 

965009.2561

5000

915839.2064

15

49

 

1109760.645

5000

1058965.087

15

50

 

1276224.7

5000

1223559.9

15

Total
Investment

25000

 

125000

 

 

 

Vooo …. You see now Raj has invested only 25 thousand while Rohan has invested 1 lac and 25 thousand still the return for Raj is more than Rohan. For Raj 25K turns to 12.76lac and for Rohan 1.25lac turns to 12.23lac so that’s the power of compounding. So you can choose to be Raj and invest early and enjoy the rest of life without investing as Raj Enjoyed for remaining 45 Years or be Rohan and pay all your life for starting late. (Even if you feel that the 15% return figure is unrealistic still with any constant rate of return you will get similar type of statastics only number may differ.)Do you want to know what would have be the value at end of 50 year if Raj would have kept investing till the end with Rohan it would have been 25 lacs with just investment of 5k per year.

There is nothing new about Power of compounding, the only thing is that we are ignorant most of the time and don’t take the steps which should have been taken long time back. Another thing saying I can’t afford to invest now is nothing but just mental laziness, if sit down and exercise your brain you will see that there are many ways and you will be able to figure out a plan for yourself. Think of the loan term benefits and goals. Time is more valuable than money, learn to value your time and time will value you.

Nothing can stop you from getting Rich now If you Don’t earn a lot and have lot of responsibility, start early start with little amount and get rich slowly. Patience pays you just need to have a little of it. If you do not spend less than you earn, and if you do not save the difference, you cannot build the wealth you desire. The rich are not rich because they earn a lot of money; the rich are rich because they save a lot of money.

At Last i would just live to quote few words by Jim Rohn

If you don't design your own life plan,
chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.
And guess what they have planned for you?Not much.