Episode 14
How To Build Wealth as an NRI (CFP Reveals Secrets) - w/ Vrishin
Money questions get weird fast when you are an NRI on OPT or H-1B and everyone around you has a different opinion. A CFP walks through the stuff people usually learn too late: how to think about investing, what actually deserves attention, and where the common traps are hiding.
Who this is for
- You are making a career move across countries and the paperwork is part of the stress.
- You would rather hear Vrishin's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Build Wealth as an NRI (CFP Reveals Secrets) - w/ Vrishin
- How to build wealth as a student, best practices and some common pitfalls
- How to build wealth as a salaried employee on OPT (and STEM OPT)
- How to deal with student loans
- How to optimize investments including 401ks
- A CFP walks through the stuff people usually learn too late: how to think about investing, what actually deserves attention, and where the common traps are hiding.
- everybody in India getss an engineering degree and then they figure out what they want to do I don't just know it I'm...
- doing right from day one kind of when Co started I said let me start a business how hard would it be now we're in day...
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everybody in India getss an engineering degree and then they figure out what they want to do I don't just know it I'm living that if that students can start doing right from day one kind of when Co
doing right from day one kind of when Co started I said let me start a business how hard would it be now we're in day one of full-time job now you're a salaried employee now that same question
salaried employee now that same question there's a reason why it's called personal finance what made you kind of look at just the nris younger folks anybody who's Millennial ji if your debt
anybody who's Millennial ji if your debt is bad don't take loans we say house is the best investment so like go buy a house immediately I will but do you have $8,000 sitting in your Robin Hood
$8,000 sitting in your Robin Hood account ask this is actually a friend of mine that prompted me to ask this very specific oddly specific question how you went about you know establishing your
Show notes
Money questions get weird fast when you are an NRI on OPT or H-1B and everyone around you has a different opinion. A CFP walks through the stuff people usually learn too late: how to think about investing, what actually deserves attention, and where the common traps are hiding.
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