How I wish I had the data – core, raw, authenticated, available for free – on Indian investors that my blogging friends in US have about American investors. I am sure it will NOT happen and we will have to live with our own pathetic data and assumptions. If the regulator (sitting with about Rs. […]

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I hope the title does not throw you off! Two dangerous words – ‘weight loss’ and ‘mathematical’ except of course for Pattu the maths professor! A plate of samosa – takes about 10 minutes to eat, and 65 minutes to burn off. Did not like the equation? welcome to the cruel world of mathematics. The […]

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This is a meeting I had yesterday …. PR Head: Hi Subra since 43 people in Linked In say you know banking our Chairman wants to meet you, is it possible to meet now? S: Yes, of course, and this meeting is regarding…? PR Head: Our Chairman Mr. Fix It wants to explore the possibility […]

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I hope I do not get lynched for the title that I am using. For heavens sake do not show it to your mother, or if you are young enough, to your grandmother. These days it is customary (and profitable) to run a website in the US teaching people to be frugal. For the Indians […]

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Let me start with a quote from a very respectable MEDICAL JOURNAL…here is what the editor has to say about Doctor’s Continuing Education program being sponsored by the pharma industry: “This is marketing masquerading as education. It is self-evidently absurd to look to companies for critical, unbiased education about products they sell. It’s like asking […]

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I have an Icici bank credit card with a small limit – under US $ 1000 – and I use it to the fullest possible extent. Lotsa travel, cell phone bills, net based purchase…etc – but sensibly pay off in full. I never need to exceed the limit – and most of the times I […]

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I met a very very evolved personal financial planner – and a wealth manager too. He was going through his past actions and telling me how he would have done some things differently. When I heard that I realized how difficult it is to be a personal financial planner with a conscience, with ability to […]

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