how many of you have noticed that the Sensex and the Nifty may have gone nowhere in the past few weeks…but I have seen some explosive growth in: Cholamandalam Finance, EID Parry, Carborundum Universal, Tata Motors, Cummins…. just an observation and back patting myself…. PS: i MAY  have a trading position in these shares too… […]

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Every channel, magazine and blog tells you to buy Term insurance…right? Now the industry is much, much smarter than the customer – so they have come up with many, many variants of term insurance! More about that later…but let us see what gives you comfort: 1. Buy term insurance on the net: it is the […]

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Please remember the Indian Army has not been tested since 1971. We have no clue how well prepared it is to take on a war even by Bangladesh…. And our army cannot get its General’s date of birth right… In Kashmir they ‘need’ to be there to keep it normal – does it sound like […]

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In 1991 Prime Minister Narasimha Rao brought liberalisation to a practical level. Departing from the Nehru-Indira’s uneducated guesses on economics, what Mr. Rao did was path breaking. Sadly Sonia is back in power -(and BJP’s stint did not matter) and we are back to our so called social ways. Take the case of the sugar […]

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“My husband does not lose money in equity markets – you know we doubled our money in the Maruti IPO’ vow I said…and as usually probed …. she said “Oh my husband only applies in an IPO, so he says we cannot lose money”…vow! There are 2 routes to the equity market. One is called […]

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When I ran the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (scmm) in the year 2011, I was an amateur walker and used to run only the Scmm – and had done little by way of practice. I did the 21.09 km race in 2:50 – which was about 5 minutes MORE than my target time of 2.45. […]

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PSU companies make profits only if: – they have a monopoly – price is controlled or quantity is regulated – the market is very unfair – there is so much profit that all companies make profit. PSU banks fall in the 4th category! The government owns about 25 banks – and it has no reason […]

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