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Human Relations and Business Relations

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If you belong to a category of people who mix personal relationships and business relationships, welcome to being an Indian! However there is a marked change happening – and there is no age group which is changing. Let me give you some examples.
I deal with a person who heads training in a Wealth management company. [...]

Book Review: Retire Rich Invest Rs. 40 a day..

Awright, I have posted enough book reviews of ‘Retire Rich Invest Rs. 40 a day’, but here are some comments:
‘I was surprised that there was no book on Retirement in India till you wrote one’ – one doctor.
My answer: Not true. There have surely been attempts earlier, but you may not have been searching. There [...]

Scriptures and Investing

I had to speak at a Church (Parish) in Mumbai on Investing. In a religious gathering it was necessary to keep in mind what the scriptures said about investing. So the topic I chose was ‘Scriptures and investing’.
The Christian community is quite conspicuous in its absence in the financial services field – especially in the [...]

Take a corporate seriously!

When you meet corporate India’s executives, their suppliers, their customers, the vendors who sell their products, you can see a lot of disconnect.
Here is my (completely unsolicited) advice to the people who meet Corporate India:
a. It may sound difficult, but do not laugh at their ‘Corporate Vision’, ‘Corporate Mission’ and words like ‘monetize the idea’, [...]

How to Get rich: And stay that way

Let us see…getting rich is easy is it not?
Get a good degree ——> It will lead to a great job—-> You will earn a lot of money —-> You have got rich.
This is one route. Well there are some issues – every body cannot get a good degree..so the scheme is torpedoed at the very [...]

What a Financial Planner can do?

Well he can do many things!!
Some of the things that he can do are the following:
1. Identify your REAL goals and hurdles in reaching them.
2. Convert the goals into challenges and make sure you are willing to put in the resources to achieve them
3. Identify your personality – some people think they have goals. However, [...]

No commission to bankers too!

He who sells more gets more commission. This is always true for any sales program, unless the product is a monopoly product and the manufacturer could not care.
So when a small distributor of mutual fund (or life insurance) compares himself to a big distributor, it is unfair. If a small distributor (let us say he [...]

Founder’s Day: Today!!

Today is the birthday of Mr. Jamsetji N Tata who was born on 3rd March at Navsari, Gujarat. In 1919 Lord Chelmsford named the city Jamshedpur, in honour of its founder, whose birthday is celebrated on 3rd March as Founder’s Day.
People know so much about this great man that there is [...]

LIC’s problems

Many people ask me why I suggest New India for medical insurance, but never suggest LIC for life insurance. The answers are simple. Medical insurance is a simple product and the probability of getting a good interpretation of the policy is quite high with New India. In fact if you have not lied in the [...]

Budget and after..

It is very exciting to do a post on the budget.  All you have to do is a lot of cut, copy and paste. My mail box is full of documents about the budget – and there is only only key that I had to use. It is called ‘Del’.
Frankly for the common man (who [...]