The last few months the volatility in the market has gone up! There have been huge movements in oil, gold, US $, and of course the equity markets. The volatility has been big enough to create panic among a lot of people -and many SIP have been stopped. Of course thanks to banks and Ifa […]

I wrote about treating your job as a business. I do think that it is the best piece of advice that I can give you. However, if you have never done your own business, this advice needs a little more explanation. If you search the archives you will find part 1 – just search for […]

caveat: don’t treat any article about the future seriously. At 4am…for want of anything better to do…this trip into the future. It is always difficult to predict. Especially if it is about the future. However certain things are clear. 2050 the ‘old people’ will be what we call millennial of today. The country will be […]

I am under pressure to write a book on equities. Well, what is your view? More importantly…what do you want to see in a book on equities? Please put it on the comment section please…

Disclaimer: THIS IS NOT A PAID POST (Lol). However I am a trainer with many fund houses and to that extent there is a vested interest. Further disclaimer that I am a direct equity investor, and I do not invest in an NFO or a concentrated fund. However banking and pharma industries are very difficult […]

The mutual fund industry especially the distribution side is going through a lot of turmoil. It is difficult, but not impossible for me to be totally unbiased, but the numbers look bad. Let us see for whom it looks bad. At the top, we have 68000 odd distributors who are qualified to receive sales distribution […]

How to sell? well we can make a salesman’s job easy by doing some marketing, right? Since we do not have much primary research in this country, we have to depend on USA and assume that the same things are happening in India too. The amount of time that people are spending on cooking must […]