by Naveen Julian Rego | May 17, 2025 | Personal Finance
I recently took 10 days off from my busy schedule to unwind and reflect. Amid the calm, one thought kept resurfacing: Over the years of practicing financial planning, I’ve often asked myself — what truly sets us apart in delivering value to our clients? Is it lower...
by Naveen Julian Rego | Feb 24, 2025 | Personal Finance
We are always on the lookout for investment products which would make sense in our client’s portfolios. The selection is majorly dictated by simplicity, lower costs, tax efficiency and ease of management. Past/future returns would not be the sole criteria for these...
by Naveen Julian Rego | Feb 6, 2025 | Mutual Funds
Debt and short-term mutual funds are an excellent avenue for investors looking for stability and regular income from their financial portfolio. However, too many changes have happened on the taxation front into these products including the changes announced in...
by Naveen Julian Rego | Feb 6, 2025 | Personal Finance
Our take on Union budget 2025 for its relevance to one’s personal finances. We have just highlighted the important points to make this simple. The tax lab has been changed drastically for the New Tax Regime with income up to Rs. 4 lakhs being exempt (Residents...
by Naveen Julian Rego | Oct 24, 2024 | Personal Finance
Greetings from us!! Managing one’s personal finances is exciting or boring depending on one’s financial expertise, availability of quality time and the dedication to follow the wealth strategies. There are broadly three ways one can manage their personal...
by Naveen Julian Rego | Sep 13, 2024 | Personal Finance
Large medical expenses, disability and death can sometimes seriously affect a family’s personal finances. While we cannot predict, we can definitely plan to mitigate the financial issues concerning such events. Below are our key thoughts which could be...
by Naveen Julian Rego | Sep 2, 2024 | Personal Finance
“Risk is what’s left over after you think you’ve thought of everything. We are really good at managing risk by looking backward and preparing ourselves to handle a situation we’ve already seen… only better this time. But we’re not very good at preparing for...
by Naveen Julian Rego | Aug 31, 2024 | Personal Finance
The following are our observations and thoughts on the above. Do note we have only incorporated the simpler parts which affect most of us leaving aside the complexities. Parity has been brought about in capital gains taxes for various assets like Shares, Mutual...
by Naveen Julian Rego | Aug 30, 2023 | Personal Finance
We feel that greed is gradually coming back. This is because many have experienced extremely wonderful short term returns especially in small/mid-cap stocks and also in mutual funds focused on these segments. Equity markets are definitely not cheap and investors...
by Naveen Julian Rego | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Greetings from us!! We completed 20 long years of our Financial Planning journey on 13th July 2023. This has been an awesome journey for us to learn and unlearn so many things. I would like to pen down 20 important points of my practical learnings during this...
