No I am not getting into what Salman Khan did to Ravindra Patil…but just reinforcing some Indianness : 1. If you are a small constable, you should not fight your superiors: Patil spoke the truth. For that he was prosecuted by his own department. The Judiciary hounded him, his family abandoned him, and some people […]
Reliance Mutual fund recently did a survey about the Retirement habits of Indians….and here is what I read from that (this is based on a Morningstar summary, I have not read the original survey report). People are worried about retirement and RETIREMENT PLANNING IS a top financial goal (46%). Nice, nice if you are a […]
I remember at a Icici Pru Amc sponsored training program…Naren said “If you are like Subra and me…you have been in equities long enough to know that volatility is part of the market and you have to know how to use it…so if you were investing when everybody else was panicking..that itself was enough to […]
Are you wondering what is emotional investing? Well when you confuse luck, power of compounding, patriotism, nationalism, being a good doer…..and think of all of this as investing!! For example if I say “Reliance has done nothing for its shareholder” I MEAN EXACTLY THAT. People get excited and say the following: 1. it is difficult […]
Did the headline bring more people to this blog today? Well I can reply to that honestly only after 2 days when I have all the data in.. When you run a blog for 8 years the sheer fact that you have been around makes you an expert. Well that is what people think I […]
Yesterday India lost one of its jewels of the fund management industry. When I call him a jewel I am not saying that he was India’s best fund manager. About that the jury can decide, I am not interested in that debate. I am talking about the ONLY MAN I know who avoided conflict of […]
Long long ago….really long long ago a friend had got an appointment to meet the legendary lawyer Mr. Nani Palkhivala. He had a written note..and he said “I am meeting Mr. P tomorrow at 11am”. I was surprised – because knew that at 11am the big man would be in the court. I asked to […]