Teaching is a big opportunity for learning. You can learn in each and every teaching assignment that you do. My training for NISM – I must have trained upwards of 1500 policemen, and about 300 people from the defense services, students, inductees into the police force, ….etc. I was in Kolhapur to train about 2500 […]

Human beings are a little funny. They love inflation and they hate inflation. First of all inflation is “the general increase in prices”. So when your favorite Udipi raises the cost of Rava Masala dosa from Rs. 150 to Rs. 175, it is not inflation. It is ‘price increase in dosa’. This maybe offset in […]

To be a good pace bowler all you have to do is to take a red ball (white ball, pink ball…) and hurl it across 22 yards at a batsman. It has to fall on or around the ‘Off stump’ and travel at a speed of 149 kmph. That is all. Sounds so simple no? […]

Caveat: I am not applying in the IPO, nor in the quota for Hdfc shareholders. However, I may buy on listing, I have not made up my mind. When you look at a business you should see the following things: ability to grow well ability to grow well WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CAPITAL based on reputation and […]

Risk tolerance is a often used word by Advisers telling you where to invest. Not that the adviser himself understands the usefulness of this, or how to administer it, but it is now a done thing. So typically a 20+ something, usually a pretty girl from the bank sits with a 48 year old ‘investor’ […]

What is your biggest asset? Well if you are young, it has to be time. You are going to trade it successfully over a period of time and you are going to become rich. Let me throw a bet – if you were to be given all the wealth of Buffett, Ratan Tata or Azim […]