A few days ago I had given 3 interesting scenario with the question: ‘Do they need life insurance?’. Here is the answer to the first story. Am summarising the story for those who came in late…and those who do not wish to go searching for the story: Mr. Rajesh is a well off builder. His […]

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About a year back we were all perhaps not so optimistic about the markets. Now we all are optimistic – what this means is the risk in the market has increased !! Risk is counter intuitive and it has always been like that for a long time. About a year ago when I saw the […]

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The advantage of being on planet earth for a long time is..you can be a part historian. This may be perhaps a little parochial towards the South Indians who got caught in the scam… The first scam that comes to mind is the Harshad Mehta scam..1992. (I was not born at the Mundhra scandal which […]

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For a new person is it worth being an IFA? – Independent Financial Advisor for those who do not know what is an IFA. My take is if you are professionally qualified and can get a decent job in the outside world, it is not worth being an Ifa. We recruit Chartered Accountants at Rs. […]

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This series could seriously be made into a book…but have decided to put one a day Client: Good Morning Haresh, how are you? Haresh: Good sir, market is looking a little weak…what do you think sir? Client: Yes, I agree, but what about Hero Honda? H: Sir, HH looks good, I feel. Client: Yes…good results […]

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People are willing to pay millions of rupees for their Children’s education. Now this has to be tapped by somebody. So every politician has set up a college – true in almost every state. Now these colleges owned and run by goons need students. Easier to get students from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, UP, …so […]

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Last week did cheating get legalised or has it always been legal? Well if you are in any industry you see two faces (actually more, but for this article 2 will suffice). One face is by the regulators and the powerful people in the industry and the other one is by the weaker ones. The […]

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