Best investment plan – Do’s and Don’ts Many people think that the best investment plan is the one with the highest return and the lowest risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. Regardless of the economic environment, there is an universal truth which dictates that ‘High risk = High Return’ and ‘Low Risk = Low returns’. On [...]

Get Life Insurance while you can Who can Get Life Insurance? You would be surprised to know that not all people can get life insurance all the time. While most people can get life insurance when they are healthy, there are number of factors that determine if a person can get life insurance or not. [...]

Term Life Insurance or Whole Life Insurance Which is best for you?   Whether it be term life insurance or Whole life insurance, replacing one’s income in the case of death, disability or critical illness is very important, especially if you have one or more people depending on your income. For individuals who are in [...]

What is Life Insurance? Life insurance is a contract between the policy holder and the insurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money (the “benefits”) upon the death of the insured person. Depending on the contract, other events such as terminal illness or critical illness may also trigger payment. [...]

Education Plan – Dos and Don’t s When doing finan­cial plan­ning, one of the most impor­tant top­ics of dis­cus­sion is how to create the right education plan for your child.. The cost of edu­ca­tion is on the rise, advanc­ing far in excess of the infla­tion rate. There­fore, it is essen­tial to plan for the future [...]

Financial Advisors in Dubai Many expats in Dubai arrive here with great plans for a better lifestyle and higher standard of living. In fact many of them get the lifestyle they are after, and enjoy it so much that they forget that need to plan their finances and goals for the long term. There are a [...]

Investment Portfolio Investment Portfolio- Diversified Portfolio Starting an investment?  What is an investment portfolio anyway? By definition, an investment portfolio is “a collection of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, property and cash”. An Investment Portfolio may be held by individual investors and/or managed by financial experts, hedge funds, banks and other financial institutions”. Having [...]

How to plan for retirement Lets face it, no matter who you are, what you do and how old you are right now, there is day when all of us will retire, or at least want to retire. For most people retirement means having financial independence and being able to make the choice of working [...]

Zurich Life Zurich Life – Middle East is the Dubai branch of the company Zurich International Life. The Dubai branch is based in DIFC with an office in Emaar square as well, next to Dubai mall. Zurich Life – Middle East – Areas of operation Zurich Life – Middle East office serves customers in the [...]

Zurich International Life Zurich International Life – Middle East is the Dubai branch of the company Zurich International Life. The Dubai branch is based in DIFC with an office in Emaar square as well, next to Dubai mall. Zurich International Life – Middle East – Areas of operation Zurich International Life – Middle East office [...]

Axa Medical Insurance Dubai It’s now simple to access great healthcare for you and your family, wherever you are in the world. Axa Medical Insurance Dubai makes it easy to choose the right cover and easy to use it. A simple approach – Now Health – Axa Medical Insurance Dubai AXA asks you the important [...]

Maternity Insurance in Dubai Delivering a baby without Maternity Insurance in Dubai can be very expensive. Delivery fees from January 2011, at UAE government hospitals are AED 5,000 for natural births, and AED 8,000 for caesarean section (previously AED 2,500 for natural birth and AED 5,000 for c-section). If the patient does not have medical insurance [...]

Car Insurance in Dubai So !!! your car insurance is about to expire, and it is that time of the year when you dread going out to shop for car insurance. You want the best value for money but don’t have the patience to shop for the best car insurance in Dubai. Finding the best car insurance [...]

Arnold Shwarzenegger – Life’s 6 rules of Success Arnold is one of my role models and when he talks about Success, people listen. Here is my favorite picture of Arnold and a video with his speech on motivation.

Google Instant Google Instant Google recently introduced their “Instant Search” feature called Google Instant which starts to populate search results the instant you start typing into the search box. At the same time, Google Instant suggests alternate search terms as you type to help narrow your search without forcing you to enter entire search phrases. [...]

This is one of my greatest role models Watch this amazing video, you will love it !!!  

Wadi Asimah A wadi is a dried up river bed, occasionally it floods and frequently there is some water in small pools. Wadi Asimah is near the east coast of UAE, near Masafi. We decided to go Wadi bashing as we had done a lot of dune bashing and we had heard a lot about [...]

So, you have decided to visit Dubai and don’t know where to stay. Dubai with all of its heritage and sight-seeing activities makes this a very tough decision. The saying ‘Dubai has too many hotels’ is very appropriate for a city built around tourism activities. At this time you may be wondering which activities would [...]

Fossil Rock also known as Jebel Maleihah or Camel Rock is an inspiring monolith that is embedded with fossils.  Some of the fossils are said to be over 80 million years old. Address:  It is located about an hour out of Dubai off the Hatta road. Last weekend, me and my brothers made a trip [...]