by Raafia Dabir | Jun 28, 2012 | Civil Matters
This is just not possible… period. Someone who has an estate most likely does not need life insurance. We hear things like “Life Insurance is an excellent idea for estate planning. Life Insurance is needed all your life i.e. till the time you die. Life Insurance gives...
by Raafia Dabir | Jun 28, 2012 | Trusts, Wills
How long would it take for the next of kin to access the estate of the deceased worth Rs 80 lakh? Family “A” comprising the surviving wife and her two adult children, who are married, took all of eight years. During this period, the delay was on account of...
by Raafia Dabir | Jun 28, 2012 | Plan your Finance - Articles
Besides general living expenses, everything else money tends to buy is an asset of some sort. Assets are good, we like to have assets and it’s definitely a good idea too, to have assets. Just that there are two types of assets viz., Consumption Assets &...
by Raafia Dabir | Jun 28, 2012 | Behavioural Finance
It does not matter how much you earn; what matters is, how much you are worth? Apologies to my readers if this sounds like a line straight from Gordon Gekko’s hall of fame. Take a look around you; who and what do you find? Is there an option to struggling, striving,...
by Raafia Dabir | Jun 27, 2012 | Education Planning
Take a quick check around you; what is the single most important thing for parents? Most would settle at “the best possible future of our child.” This is natural, fair and absolutely reasonable. There is nothing to contest the purity of this emotion save & except...
