4 kids from a business school and wanted a summer placement. Of course at summers pricing is not much of a question. I just asked those students “What salary do you think you guys (and gals) will start at?” They were quite unanimous – they all said Rs. 1 million. As I have been with […]
The US government is pouring out AID this week to a number of financial companies under several of its recently instituted ‘support’ programs. Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo, and GE Capital are now in various stages of selling bonds backed by the government, thus lowering the rates they would have […]
At last the market went up by almost 500 points yesterday. Not bad for a market which has had a very rough year so far, with the Sensex with more than 50% loss for the year. This is literally the worst market crash since 1993. The bull run of 1992 was followed by a 46% fall in […]
PHASE I – 1964 – 87 Mutual Fund Industry started in India in 1963 with the formation of UTI Launch of First Scheme – US 64 – it was a very popular scheme, largely perceived as a debt fund with assured returns. However, it never had to declare its NAV and ran into problems in […]
If you want to lead a nice normal life you need to do some simple things right. Not to say it is easy. Let me explain. Getting up in the morning and going for a walk. Sounds simple, but not easy to do. Give up smoking, sounds simple, not very easy to do. However there […]
When I was talking to a regulator, he asked me “How come ULIPs (Unit linked insurance plans) charge such a high “entry” load? I told him as a distributor I can actually make more money from a customer selling mutual funds than selling ULIPs because of churn and a trail commission that is based on […]
This is of course an old article inspired by Mr. Buffet’s thinking – or Mr. Graham’s thinking, language and concept of Mr. Market. It appeared in Moneycontrol long back….however things have not changed much. Mr. Market: Good trader but a terrible investor. When you push that ‘Place Order’ button or get that confirmation in the […]