What we are reading: For week ending 17th June,2016

At ET Wealth, we know that your time is precious. There is information overload for investors and not all of it would be useful and helpful in decision making. And, it’s a true even for us.

So, along with the ET Wealth’s daily dose of articles on personal finance, we will help bring to your notice some truly interesting articles/blogs/videos in the realm of personal finance from across the globe.

These are interesting pieces we have read over the week and found them useful enough to share with you.

Here are three interesting articles from our Recommended Reading list this week:
What we are reading
3 Most Important Factors To Making Your Money Last in Retirement
The biggest fear of a retiree is what if one outlives his or her retirement savings. This is more pronounced nowadays as life expectancy is increasing. Read on to see how to tackle such a situation and plan well for the twilight years.
http://www.kiplinger.com/article/investing/T037-C032-S014-3-most-important-factors-to-making-your-money-last.html

Is Now the Time to Buy Gold?
The author argues whether gold is an asset, a currency, or a commodity. It talks about the highly unpredictable nature of gold, equities and debt to be the part of portfolio rather than gold, and the maximum exposure to it in one’s portfolio if one has to invest. Here you will read about the price movements in gold over the years and in recent times.
http://time.com/money/4347755/gold-price-investment/

How does negative interest rate impacts the economy?
Here’s a video explaining ‘Why and how negative interest rate impacts the economy’ and why official interest rates are now negative in a quarter of the global economy without causing, so far, massive cash withdrawals.
http://video.ft.com/4931473981001/Punk-FT-Negative-rates-defy-gravity/World