Aamir Khan did a story in Satyameva Jayate where he painted the doctors black. He said: there are huge (50%) kickbacks generic medicines are not prescribed, only branded ones are doctors perform unnecessary operations. Let us take the case of other professions: Chartered accountants, insurance agents, etc are also accused of  kickbacks unnecessary complications in […]
The more I write and the more I communicate with people new to finance, the more I realise the need to ‘de-jargonise’. However I am also convinced that if you need to use your money, it is necessary for you to learn simple words like inflation. With Wikipedia, Investopedia and Google around, I do not […]
If you are in the financial services business or in the Information Technology business, remember competition can come from anywhere. When SGX saw an opportunity in the Nifty futures, they said, lets do it. Now while NSe has to get up every morning and worry about service tax, stt, Gaar, ..and well an occasional bandh […]
Subra, my money is safe, I bank with a mnc bank. They have fantastic internal systems, audit, well paid and well trained people to look after my money. They have a fantastic ……. Really? And I have dealt with banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, IFAs, ….and I know this is a wishful statement, not true. […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjn_o-SZcsc there was a competition in Japan between a Japanese film maker and my niece Divya …needless to say she won…hence the link 🙂
i have a core portfolio – and a small trading portfolio. The amount allocated to the trading portfolio has not changed in the past 4-5 years. Take a bow, Ratan Tata, Tata Motors back to the Jewel position in your crown… In the recent past i had added Tata Motors (dvr), Cholamandalam Investment, Divis […]
When a person joins a company (actually any job – bank, government, army, private sector….) he/she gets an appointment letter. This letter has a ‘Gross Cost to Company’ figure…which looks good and impressive…say Rs. 600,000. Now the kid who gets this letter thinks he is going to get a cheque of Rs. 50,000 every month. […]