Investing into a volatile asset class like equity without a proper exit strategy is akin to entering into a Chakravyuh without knowing how to come out of it. A robust Goal based exit framework ensures a very high probability of achieving the target amount for a given financial goal. Sudden market crash and black swan events like "Covid-19" may seriously jeopardize your financial journey. A robust Goal based exit framework is your insurance against such unpredictable events.

Are you wondering how much fees is justified for your financial advisor? What is the value that your financial advisor adds to your overall financial journey? Does your financial advisor charge you too much for the financial plan and the investment advice that she gives you? How do you segregate between the value of investment advice and the service that your financial advisor provides you?

What can you do to minimize the impact of 10% tax on your Long term capital gains (LTCG)? Though this is a new reality now for most of the long term investors, but being more aware of the possible options can help us reduce the impact. It just requires one to do few things on a periodic basis. 

Most of us want to keep our money safe while choosing to invest in our long-term goals like child education and our own retirement. This is done primarily because everyone has told us that investments in equity markets are risky, and we really don’t want to take the risk with our important goals like education and retirement. While it looks like a prudent choice, but unknowingly we are making the wrong choice of investment products, like FDs, NSCs, PPF etc. Let us see three main reasons why in long-term goals, it makes perfect sense to take the risk. 

While we save throughout our life for our peaceful retirement, but when it comes to investing our retirement corpus, we choose many tax-inefficient products. This is mainly, due to lack of awareness about products to invest in, during our retired life. In this article we have proposed a mix of three type of investment products which will result in tax-efficient returns and will provide you better risk-adjusted returns in the long term. You may find it useful either for your own retirement corpus or for the investments of your retired parents.