Why doctors need to maintain accounts… Doctors are almost mortally scared of accounts and accountants. They love money, but hate accounting – especially the details. Hey Doc, understanding a balance sheet does not mean you need to know HOW to make it. After all to enjoy an omlette you need not lay an egg! First […]
I hope there is nobody out there with a gun to lynch me. Let me tell you about 2 contrarian calls that I had over the last 15-20 months, and which made me money. One was gambling that the dollar will strengthen – the world was willing to write it off. Moneycontrol carried the story […]
Sometimes you get rich by not getting ESOPs! If the private life insurance companies did not give you ESOP, rejoice. It must be really difficult if you have such a tough competitor like LIC! Look at what all they do: 1. They give in writing to corporates – we will give you 9.35% p.a. return […]
Event went off well…about 40 friends whom I was meeting for the first time, Deepa did a great job. Anusha, Bijal had organised it well..31 people bought copies. Status update: 19,000 retail copies sold…(corporate sales: 23000). Lot of people WORRIED about retirement I guess. Thanks to all those who tried to come, hopefully will do […]
Research is always interesting – especially if you are getting paid for it! As a company we do research of a few hedge funds. The discipline that they show while picking stocks is quite amazing. There are various screens which they use – from market capitalization, no. of transactions in a day, value of trading […]
If your financial planner told you “The longer your time horizon, the more stocks you should own”. You need to tell him “Time isn’t everything. You must also consider I am a broker in the life insurance business!” It’s one of the basic rules of thumb: The more years you have to recoup losses, the […]
With the zero load in mutual funds it is perhaps not too wrong to expect that many fund advisors will get out of this business. I am not sure whether this is a correct assumptions but it is a logical one. Will it really happen? Let us see. There will be many people in the […]