If you are a Tata Motors watcher, the sales of Nano should worry you, right? Well, not so fast. The sales of Nano will not do any great magic to the sales of Tata Motors. Nor will it affect the margins. To make an impact on the books of Tata Motors, Nano has to sell […]

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I presume all of you have heard of Motleyfool.com – an internationally renowned website. I have some association with them…so to that extent i could be biased, but yes, it is a great site. Here is a mail I received from their Mutual fund division..and I do not think I will ever receive from an […]

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When it comes to investing in equities, it is nice to have a lot of rules. This means your full portfolio behaves to certain rules. Rules can be made for: – Stock picking,  Stock review, Portfolio balancing, re-balancing, diversification, …. HOWEVER IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO KNOW why it was made in the first place. […]

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My take on why we do not manage our OWN finances well: there are many things in our lives which are in the ‘to do’ list. And largely we can classify them as follows: Habit must do: brush your teeth, make your bed, take bath, – not terribly exciting, but we do. Pain must do: […]

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We all know, that we should: a) start young b) save / invest regularly c) use the power of compounding…                     etc. BUT we do not do it…surely not in our 20s, and maybe 30s… WHY, like your answers please! do not want to give options and ‘direct’ your thoughts…just asking an open ended question…thanks

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you build up a company, then you want to sell the company. who do you go to? a big Investment / Merchant banker? For him you are small change (obviously with million dollar bonuses, if your fees is ONLY 5 million dollars..) In Indian conditions, it must be worse of course. read on how YOU […]

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the media is a fantastic predictor of what the future will look like…neither are they able to predict tomorrow’s index, nor oil prices, nor interest rates. however after an event happens, they still continue to look, talk and feel intelligent…and without an apology. if you think I am talking about Cnbc, well the others are […]

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