did one chotta program for Nse and Cnbc..at Allahabad Saturday 3.30pm and Sunday 4.30pm (Same program, repeated) …if u are near a TV set and there is no re-re-re-replay of the Indian world cup victory…please watch… sheer ego makes me put this post. Not very sure that you will benefit by watching, my ego will […]

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Well there are (were?) many ways of selling life insurance. The more important ones are agency, bancassurance, brokers, and of course the great Multi Level Marketing. The agency model is the toughest to build and even those companies which claim to have a big agency models are seeing the productivity go down. It is much […]

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here are the links to the articles in Lokmat (Marathi)….for the Marathi reading audience… http://onlinenews1.lokmat.com/php/detailedsuppliment.php?id=Manthan-52-1-06-04-2011-9c0e6&ndate=2011-04-03&editionname=manthan http://onlinenews1.lokmat.com/php/detailedsuppliment.php?id=Manthan-52-1-06-04-2011-a59f0&ndate=2011-04-03&editionname=manthan http://onlinenews1.lokmat.com/php/detailedsuppliment.php?id=Manthan-52-1-06-04-2011-a59f0&ndate=2011-04-03&editionname=manthan

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I have never claimed that I can predict well. However having been a broker and having dealt with bankers, I made two predictions – both went wrong. 1. When the Standard Chartered IDR was lapped up by the Indian population, I had predicted on this blog and said ‘now there will be a spate of  […]

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Once in a while a man comes along willing to offer you his everything. Including his life. It is not easy, not many of us can do it. If I give somebody a book out of my super overflowing library, I keep track to get it back. I have no clue when I gave something […]

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Every time I talk about equity investing, I ask my audience to invest in 2 notebooks of 200 pages each. One notebook to write down what makes you buy / sell a share, what price you are paying, transaction charges, etc. Sometimes I also ask them to write what ‘gut’ feeling that they had. So […]

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