I am a Lance Armstrong fan. Sorry make it I WAS a Lance Armstrong fan. Let us be clear. He is a cheat, who came clean only after he was caught. He can no longer be virtuous and keep saying ‘they are troubling me’. Think of the trauma that his competitors went through….really sad for […]
Let me start with a quote from a very respectable MEDICAL JOURNAL…here is what the editor has to say about Doctor’s Continuing Education program being sponsored by the pharma industry: “This is marketing masquerading as education. It is self-evidently absurd to look to companies for critical, unbiased education about products they sell. It’s like asking […]
I have an Icici bank credit card with a small limit – under US $ 1000 – and I use it to the fullest possible extent. Lotsa travel, cell phone bills, net based purchase…etc – but sensibly pay off in full. I never need to exceed the limit – and most of the times I […]
I met a very very evolved personal financial planner – and a wealth manager too. He was going through his past actions and telling me how he would have done some things differently. When I heard that I realized how difficult it is to be a personal financial planner with a conscience, with ability to […]
There are only two types of players in the market – Investors and speculators. Of course for many of us the line is very difficult to draw on a transaction to transaction. My investment in Hdfc clearly is as an investor, and my investment in South Indian Bank was as that of a speculator. However […]
Let us accept some facts early on: There are more bankruptcies than billionaires… We do not have any data about Indian investors, but MORE than agree with Sucheta Dalal and Moneylife that the number of investors have dwindled. This is terrible for the economy, but clearly a regulatory failure. Since we do not know by […]
It is already 15 days into the new year …and some of your resolutions are looking like ‘OMG did I really make it?’…let us see what can be done to make them stick. 1. Know why the resolution was made: If you said ‘i will get fitter’ – it really means NOTHING. Absolutely nothing at […]