Either I am being very touchy about ULIPs or Endowment plans in general or too many pro-ulip articles are appearing in the print media also. The big worry about using numbers in an example is to know enough about statistics – mean, median, mode, standard deviation and NOISE. Noise is the distortion that is caused […]
Not sure about how many readers will agree with this…but this is my view. There are many problems in India, and surely many, many financial problems…….however I think these are the 3 major problems: a. People underestimating retirement requirements: Many 45 year old people whom I meet underestimate their pension requirement. Not just underestimate, but […]
There are a few Golden Rules of investing…apart from the most important one..’The Man who has the Gold, makes the rules’ …apart from that the other rules are: 1. Do not abdicate financial understanding: “I trust my adviser” is not always a statement of faith. In many cases I know, it is a matter of […]
Well that is for you to know or understand, but you can do one thing – Approach your Job like a business! Companies across the globe operate in much the same way. They go into business, manage their expenses and try to turn a profit.They have a business plan – and it is called a […]
Whenever I look at the airline industry I wonder how they make money…for the shareholder. All airlines buy planes from the same companies, fly to the same airports, recruit from the same talent pool (well largely), have the same set of shareholders….how will the end product be different? Well I have no clue, but I […]
Yesterday a friend showed me the working of Reliance Mutual fund – he does not want to share the work publicly though. He took a very (perhaps not practical) view that an investor does a Rs. 1000 SIP in each and every equity fund of reliance mutual fund right from the date of launch of […]
Here is a mail from a reader…I thought readers / fans of planners / etc. should respond. Would love a response from Babar Zaidi, Ritu Kant Ojha, Anirrudha, Kamya Jaiswal, Debashis Basu, Khyati Dharamsi, Deepa Venkatraghvan, …other CFPs, ….all others welcome. I personally do not understand how personal financial planners work (well to a great […]