We’ve grown up with FDs, land, insurance plans and gold as the holy grail of investment. Moving away from these into other financial products, such as mutual funds, means getting out of our comfort zone – and that is always scary. But remember this – it is better to have something in investments, even if it earns less, than not to have anything at all. The purpose of this book is to migrate you from low-return, clunky products into financial products that look after the needs of a very different Indian citizen than of the 1970s angry young man.
