Normally this blog does not do ‘date stamped’ stories…but this is exceptional. Nilesh Shah’s moving to Icici Prudential from Templeton (circa 2004) meant some conservative guys could look at Prudential Icici Amc (as it was called then, remember?) for investing. The earlier image (K-10 or Ketan?) were all the kind of a cowboy image – […]
Unless it hurts the leaders…they do not feel the pain. If they do not feel the pain they cannot deliver good solutions. In the financial services industry…the leaders are not feeling the pain of mis-selling, of other mistakes…and it is difficult to give good leadership to people… Read on about leadership and pain read on […]
There are some people who do not think about their future…and there are some who think too much about their future. Normally advisers wish and hope that people think about the future..and do a lot of those ‘right’ kind of things. However some people expect the planner to be too accurate about the future! Imagine […]
What does Sachin Tendulkar’s past performance tell you? Well it tells you he is a great, talented, player with a fantastic attitude…that is all. You cannot use his past 2 years performance to predict what he will do for the next 20 years! Fairly obvious to the common man…but in mutual funds, he is willing […]
It is high time that the media stopped calling it the ‘Delhi Riots’ or the Bhopal Gas tragedy… Bhopal is a clear case of criminal neglect by the government..and in Delhi it is again the same. Shameful that MMS accepts the PM’s post after what happened. Of course for his role Rajiv has been punished..and […]
It was in 1999 that I was standing next to a nice, smart, well to do girl in a call center, when a client called her a bimbo. Sadly she was educated enough to understand what it meant. It took a lot of effort to counsel her from 10am to noon saying…the client did not […]
People post 40 or 45 who have lost their jobs in this market are really in bad shape. Most of them 1. need a place to go to where people will call them Sir 2. need a salary on the 1st of the month actually the 2nd is sometimes not as important as keeping up […]