Head held high, eyes on the stars, nose to the grind, ear to the ground, money where the mouth is, tongue tied, chest out, feet on the ground, have you tried doing all this simultaneously? Really tough…stop listening to the experts! It is a whole long list of lies that I can enumerate (some American, [...]
I had to do this column. Not because ulips are God’s gift to mankind, but unit linked insurance plan that I bought (circa 2004, much before the media decided that ulips are bad). I bought unit linked insurance (and continue to own them) from Hdfc Standard Life Insurance company. Here are the details for the [...]
There is a document which many of you would have signed without applying much thought. It is called the policy illustration. For about 99% of the people who buy life insurance and about 100% of the people who sell life insurance this document makes no sense – it is a waste of paper. Money mantra [...]
The number of people who advise investors to invest in Index funds is now increasing. Of course many of them are victims of the Great American media program. As long as Prashant Jain, Naren Sankaran, Nagnath, Sukumar are managing funds for me for a 2% fee why should I ‘index’ my portfolio? There are many [...]
There is an old story of 2 cats getting a piece of bread to be shared amongst themselves. Since the cats did not know how to share it, they decided to go to a monkey. The monkey agreed to play the arbitrator. He breaks the bread into two pieces – then he finds one is [...]
It is quite surprising that there is a BIG rich much higher stake financial stake life insurance industry which is being made to look like a villain. The Mutual fund industry is supposed to be a good one which charges much lesser than the life insurance industry. Amusing. Ask a distributor, it is far more [...]