why you should not listen to your parents, uncles,…and so called ill informed well wishers… http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-classic-investment-tips-you-should-throw-out-of-the-window-2267442
Why is Berkshire Hathaway the only share to reach 6 digits? Other than of course that the other companies are not run by Warren Buffett. When a company does well, it should reflect in the share price. By declaring dividends, splits or bonuses, companies are ONLY destroying value of the shareholders. When a company declares […]
I have been writing a lot recently on what an IFA can do, will do, must do….here is what he must do: He MUST charge a fee for the work that he is doing: When an IFA does something free, the client has no respect for the work that he/she does. So for starters, do […]
Let us see what your banker says…..and how you should interpret it…..and what you should say It is not easy being a layman today! The amount of ‘advise’ that is dumped on you is stunning. Advise on where to travel, when to travel, how to reduce weight, how to impress your girlfriend / wife / […]
Many people talking about risk do not tell you the biggest risk of investing. Let me take an example from the Running Field. Whenever people talk of running, the first word that comes to mind is ‘Marathon’. Running a marathon or races like Comrades takes a lot of mental, and physical effort. It can normally […]
You won’t find a lot of Pain In The As in fund boardrooms, let me tell you. Look at the board of the funds run by Subramoney Capital Management. Viswanathan earned Rs. 55,00,000 last year as an independent director. Until 2003, he was a senior vice president at the Subramoney Insurance, which just so happens […]
Meeting more investors and more IFAs and many more trainers…that is what I did in the past 2 weeks of India darshan… So let me take off from what Jason Zewig, Buffett, and Vanguard have been saying… Mutual funds are prohibitively expensive, and the fund industry knows that. The regulator should have just concentrated on […]