If you are a demat account holder with CDSL you now get an excellent service – free access to your demat account where you can check your statement, transaction, etc. Should the login be given and the client asked to generate his own password – name+ dob+ four digits of the account number …or something […]
It is always in retrospect that you can have fun about trends. On one fine day – March 9, 2009 that the US markets had hit their low. Check your brokerage account for transactions around that time. The S&P was below 700, the Great Goldman Sachs was predicting a Dow less than 400, Cnbc was […]
Many of us cannot resist that extra sweet…or that fried stuff. Well 30 seconds of pleasure on the tongue…then 30 years on the waist! How come we seek such short term pleasure in whatever we do? Why does short term trading seem more attractive vs. the long term investing, dividend yield, value investing…well I have […]
I could not believe my eyes when I saw this headline! Once upon a time when Chartered Accountants were judged by their reputation, things were different I guess. PwC when it pitches for business now must be saying..’See we are such a big firm, a few frauds do not matter’. However long ago when I […]
Is the market going to go up or go down? Well we all have tackled this question in many ways..here is one more! One ‘Wealth Manager’ came to me recently with a PMS scheme which gives me a 12% assured return (over 3.25 years not annually) – and this fund will invest in a mix […]
There are some stories that I really liked as a kid. One of them is the hen that laid golden eggs. Since the average IQ of the readers of this blog is high, and for brevity do not think there is any need to repeat the story. Let us see what the government does when […]
When people talk to me about retirement – they compare themselves to their parents. There is a large population that has already got it wrong. I met 2 people who have crossed 85 years – BOTH said ‘I thought I will die at 76-77, my father died at his age of 74, I did not […]