USA is a rich, big, innovative country which does not get into any financial mess. This is what we were taught in school. Obviously things have changed. What is the implication of Greece problem for the US? 1. Well first of all the Euro is getting weaker. This looks like good news, but it means [...]
There are many problems facing the mutual fund industry…in an interview with Dhirendra Kumar of Valueresearchonline.com Mr. Sinor of Amfi says “the biggest problem facing the mutual fund industry is the mis-selling by the distributor”. This is a little amusing. The insurance regulator and Sebi regularly make noises about mis-selling, however Amfi and the Life [...]
post repeated with some re-writing on request by a few ‘Satsang’ friends …who wanted to read about what I told them about life, portfolio creation and ghee….some of you would have read it earlier..sorry for the repeat… Life, wealth, milk and ghee. Have you wondered what is the connection between creating a portfolio, ghee, life [...]
I met somebody a few days back and he asked me the following questions: Why do you write a blog? What is the goal? What is India’s biggest financial planning issue? What are you doing to help the spread of financial literacy? I liked the questions, but he must have felt that my answers were [...]
The greatest wealth in the world has not been created by inheritance – but by investing! It is only this generation that can make this comment. We are lucky to be living in times when we can make this statement. Let us take examples of Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, L N Mittal, Azim Premji, Ambani, [...]
USA has completely different problems compared to India. The local population just does not save enough. Of course many of them cannot save but just too many of them do not save, but they play lottery. So if you want to make the Americans save, you need to give them lottery tickets for opening a [...]