Sure Real estate is an awesome investment, and Indians love it. I am sure they are buying tons of property and having a great time. And if the builder is big like Kolte Patil you feel safe. Great….but things can go wrong…like it did for these people… this was made into a nice blog post […]
Here is a post that I did long ago…looked interesting even today… http://www.subramoney.com/2010/04/getting-influenced-by-others/ I am putting the link here so that you know the date on which this post was done….
It is customary for industry bodies to time and again talk about “irresponsible” selling or mis-selling by “unethical” agents (by what ever name called). Let us look at what exactly constitutes mis-selling. Mis-selling as understood by the common man means “selling a product which is inappropriate for the client”. However let us look at the […]
At any age being able to say this is great. It summarizes many of my thoughts…. Power of Money…by Adam Khoo (Singapore’s youngest millionaire at 26 yrs.) Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars at my offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand […]
I have a brilliant friend who has worked for many big and important media houses. He told me once – when he was heading a magazine – “I have made up my mind, please do not confuse me with the facts!”. This was when he was doing a story on mutual funds and unit linked […]
I know of a few mis-sellers in the financial services who excel in mis-selling. Let us call them A, B and C. A is so used to mis-selling that when a ‘friend’ wanted to buy a DVD player, he was convincing her to get a lap top. This in spite of the fact that […]
The person who sells life insurance (and mutual funds too perhaps) is the most hated and maligned man perhaps in the BFSI space. I have no clue why. Maybe because he is the link between the customer and the manufacturer. Please do remember the agent (variously called agent, advisor, licentiate consultant, certified consultant, etc.). […]