There is some advise that you keep getting from the media. You have heard it so many times that you know that it is correct (or the person who is giving, the journal, the channel, all of them believe)…but most people do not know how to use it. So I call it brilliant, but completely […]
When I was younger and my head was full of foolish ideas and lot of black hair….there was also a huge urge to start some new businesses. Thank God, I did not! In the 1990s – Income tax practice was still on the top of my head. I seriously thought I should set up a […]
This morning I was watching television and an expert came…. He was asked what shares to buy…he said buy pharma. He then said buy GSK…. Then he was asked which shares one should NOT BUY…and he said: Do not buy Realty stocks, infrastructure stocks, auto, ….not sure what else..but auto, infra and realty were surely […]
Well if you think your broker hid something from you….well you are partially hide! Also when your broker did not tell you that dealing in derivatives will lead to a quick death…well that is also partially true! The problem is Death Derivatives are something new – and both the above statements are not true for […]
What is happening in the mutual fund industry? Well it is a little funny. Most of the fund houses are not getting any money in their equity schemes. A few schemes which are doing well are able to get some money – which is customer driven. A 15 month SIP in a good scheme would […]
Arjun Parthasarthy – i think used to be a debt fund manager with IDFC mutual fund, and I have spoken to him a couple of times, long long ago. Now he runs a website www.arjunparthasarthy.com – I have not yet visited the site, but I found an article in DNA money authored by him. In […]
Thanks to the media everybody now knows about the NPS. At the end of training sessions people do ask…’Is the NPS suitable for me?”. Well that is a difficult question to answer. Let me tell you for whom NPS is not suitable at all! If you are young: If you are below the age of […]