Monitoring helps you determine exactly when a goal is on track. It provides you a feedback which incorporated allows you to make rectifications and therefore achieve your goals which you have laid out earlier. Feedback is important as it could tell you whether the path that you have chosen to achieve your goals is correct. It is a vindication of some sort. A reality check. It gives you an opportunity to correct your deviations and take you towards your goal.

A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them and affects their decisions and judgements.

In my initial spotlight, I reviewed Parag Parikh and how well it has done giving double digit growth (50%) since April 2020 and 31% since YTD . You would think that it would be quite difficult to keep giving double digit growth. However, since my last review, Parag Parikh Long Term Equity Fund has given a growth of 12%

What are goals ?

As an individual / family, you have a vision or a personal objective/s that you would like to meet in your lifetime .

Growing Annuity @ Retirement

Mahesh is 45 years old and his current expenses are Rs 75,000/- per month . He plans to retire by 60 and would like to have an annuity which would pay him enough for his current expenses. He would like this annuity to increase by 5% every year considering inflation in mind. How much should he start investing now so that it takes of my retirement till 85?