Thursday, May 21, 2009
Need Financial Analysis for this crisis …
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
"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 | 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.