I have been speaking to market intermediaries as well as investors. Frankly whether it is a Colonel in the army, a DSP of police, a practicing surgeon in Lucknow – most of them are players in the market. The IFA is a player in the market. Whether you are a trader, investor, mutual fund investor, […]
There are some of the following questions for which I am not able to answer. In the sense that there are just too many answers, and what suits you is something that I am not able to find out. So here are the questions. What is MY ideal asset allocation? Till what age should I […]
To the best of my knowledge Icici bank knew that Videocon is a bad company to lend to in the 1990s itself. I would be surprised that they would lend so much more…especially with such a poor track record. Well this is not about Icici. It is about their off springs. Icici Securities – where […]
I am asked often by many IFA and IFA bodies like Cafemutual, etc. ‘how should an IFA run his blog’? Sorry, blogging will not work for all IFA. When I started blogging in 2008 I had no mission, vision, aim, business plan, etc. I just started writing because ANYWAY i had been writing for a […]
I went to a friend’s house and found nice leather bound edition of Milton, S’spere, Charles Dickens…and a whole host of books. I asked him ‘Tell me seriously who reads them’. He burst out laughing and said “not me”. He said the last person who had read ALL THOSE BOOKS was his grandfather – if […]
Recently I lost a friend at the age of 61. It set me off thinking in terms of life. (all deaths do, but if somebody is 5 years your senior you wonder if it could have been you!). Honestly when he retired at age 48 I had told him that he did not have enough […]