1. Why do mutual fund distributors pay Rs.2500 to Amfi for a period of 3 years? What does Amfi do for them? Is it not a body representing the big mutual funds? Assuming that there are 100,000 active distributors (conservative because this includes bank employees too) we are talking of an amount of 2500 * […]
I do financial planning at a more philosophical level than most other planners. I largely look at my ‘job’ of helping people help themselves. This of course is NOT a good business idea, and does not make any sensible money, but so be it. Recently a reader turned friend had asked me to review his […]
Every day I get one mail at least asking for the following: 1. Will you give personal advise on equity trading? 2. Is it a time to be buying gold? 3. Do you do PMS? Will you do it for me? 4. Why do you not suggest MF schemes to buy? 5. Why do […]
Look at the financial mess the Government of India is in! Thanks to some traditionally told lies, Governments all over the world have far, far more debt than what they can honestly repay. Big large countries like the US have already cheated the world by making their currencies worthless. Look at what Mamta didi wants! […]
For those who do not know I have not changed my broker and doctor for the past 33 years – and it has helped. My doctor is a homeopath who believes in detailed questioning, some little diagnostics and almost zero medicines. He has kept me off medicines for the past almost 30 odd years, and […]
Now that the mutual fund industry is doing badly, we all need to do something to keep it alive. Why should it be kept alive? do not ask such stupid questions. We should keep it alive, so it should be kept alive. Here are a few suggestions: 1. Every stock broker should be forced to […]
Rising real estate prices are likely to hit doctors the hardest! Do you see the connect doctors? Any simple business which is dependent on ‘geography’ will have to worry about rising real estate prices. Let us take the example of a opthal, a dentist and a ‘General Practitioner’ – all 3 doctors. Assume for a […]