As you get on in years it is not easy to look after your assets. Let me give you some examples: A childless couple in a posh locality (stand alone Bungalows in the capital of the country) got a new ‘nephew’ to stay with them. No clue what happened, man found dead. Police arrested the […]
I am sure the title has confused you. Totally, I hope. Recently a friend posted on FB his achievement of running 30km on a hot and humid day without drinking any water. I just did not understand what he was trying to prove, and to whom! When you take a risk you need to get […]
Sounds very funny does it not? Why would anybody choose to be poor? Or unhappy? Or fail? Well if you read Hindu philosophy in detail you realise the following lessons are taught to you through stories: You are a function of what you chose to be. If you are happy you make the choices to […]
First the good news – you do not have to worry about it unless you keep more than Rs. 5-10 crores in bank fixed deposits. If you do not, just stop reading. However if you are an accountant of a Trust or of a company which deals in such size of Fixed Deposits, you MUST […]
I have written a lot about Investment lessons, here are a few more: 1. Being a Contrarian has to be sensible: You cannot cross the road when the signal is RED. There has to be LOGIC in being a Contrarian. 2. If you do not know the incentive of the person making a pitch to […]
This is a slightly catchy headline. I have no clue whether the following traits will make you successful. However, these are the qualities / characteristics that I have seen in successful people: 1. To earn the basic money to invest, you need to work real hard, AND real smart: There is no escape from this. […]
The skill in the Investment Game is manifold. Keeping your cool from an index of 21000 to 9000 and then back to 21000 is not easy. In fact keeping your cool from 2000 to 21000 over a 4-5 year period was not easy for most of us. Now again the index is at 25,000 (03 […]