How Can You Get the Best Deal? Try creating a group or a pool if you have a friends circle / professional circle (like BNI), or any such group. Even if 3-4 of you are buying a car together there is a chance that you will get a good deal. Of course you must […]

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lies, lies and statistics… As a rule, I do not watch television, but last week i watched the first 5-7 minutes of Satyameva Jayate – Aamir Khan’s new serial on Hero vs. Villain. When I say Hero vs Villain I mean AK’s one sided show which has a HERO (AK) (whom you HAVE to support […]

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  Buying a Car is a great first time emotional event and people are buying a car at a fairly young age. Once upon a time a person would be in his 40s when he bought a car, now he is in his 20s. Two things have happened – car was once considered a luxury, […]

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  Today’s Economic Times carries an article about SEBI wanting to create a committee to view/ review the qualifications by the auditor. Sounds good? Let us see what a sister organization MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) is doing. They get the significant Indian companies to file their Annual Returns in XBRL format. In the XBRL […]

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A simple man starts a business. He then incurs costs, gives good service and makes some money. The money is enough for him to fund further growth, he expands and grows even better. Then he wants to establish himself further…BUT HE IS EXTREMELY WORRIED about his image and his business. Either he or his children […]

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I wish I could do an article like that in India. I have always been screaming that we do not have enough good quality publicly available data. Does not matter whether I am talking about investing, saving, spending,….read this data driven article by Motley Fool http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/06/15/4-shocking-examples-of-the-decline-of-the-middle-.aspx 

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Health insurance, more health diagnostics, more health treatment,….what we are losing out is on health! Now is the same thing happening in the Financial planning space? More financial diagnostic, more data, more analysis, more products, more variety of markets, – who is benefiting? The client who is paying or the client whose cost is going […]

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