Unconventional investment options can be used to reach financial goals. Find out if it will work for you

Buying a house too early in your career is a mistake. At least, this is what conventional wisdom says. But Mumbai-based Swati Dugar, 38, and her husband, 40, had other thoughts. The couple bought two houses when they were only in their twenties. In 2010, one year after they tied the knot, they booked the first property in Navi Mumbai and then another one in Thane the very next year. Both houses were under construction at the time. "We committed