#Editorial
You Already Know How Bonds Work
Here is a quick test, and it takes about ten seconds. Do you know how a zipper works? Most people say yes, fairly confidently. Now try to explain it properly. Not “the teeth interlock,” but how the slider forces them together, why it only works in one direction, what actually happens at the point of […]
Investing Early: What the Compounding Chart Leaves Out
Kavya is 26. She works at a logistics start-up in Pune, earns enough to split rent without thinking about it, and has decided she is going to start investing properly. She decided that last year as well as the year before. Nothing is wrong. She is not in debt, there is more in her savings […]
What If Bonds Worked Like Gold?
Every Indian household has a rainy-day asset that nobody plans to sell. Gold sits in a cupboard for decades, yet everyone in the family knows it can raise cash by evening. That quiet promise, more than the price of the metal, is why we trust it. At the Global Fintech Fest, Aditi Mittal, Co-founder of […]