Investors think that the IFA control the Asset Management companies. The Amc think that the IFA controls the investor. Far from the truth. A few investors listen to the IFA, and almost none of the Amc listen to the IFA. Unless of course he has say Rs. 800 crores industry AUM. That means a handful […]
A good question to grapple with. If you retire, will you become lazy? Will you sit at home in a lungi (shorts, payjama, veshti….) watch TV, surf online, sleep till 9am…or whatever? I do not know. I have always been lazy perhaps. I have always hated watching TV. I like the fact that I do […]
Teaching is a big opportunity for learning. You can learn in each and every teaching assignment that you do. My training for NISM – I must have trained upwards of 1500 policemen, and about 300 people from the defense services, students, inductees into the police force, ….etc. I was in Kolhapur to train about 2500 […]
Human beings are a little funny. They love inflation and they hate inflation. First of all inflation is “the general increase in prices”. So when your favorite Udipi raises the cost of Rava Masala dosa from Rs. 150 to Rs. 175, it is not inflation. It is ‘price increase in dosa’. This maybe offset in […]
To be a good pace bowler all you have to do is to take a red ball (white ball, pink ball…) and hurl it across 22 yards at a batsman. It has to fall on or around the ‘Off stump’ and travel at a speed of 149 kmph. That is all. Sounds so simple no? […]
Caveat: I am not applying in the IPO, nor in the quota for Hdfc shareholders. However, I may buy on listing, I have not made up my mind. When you look at a business you should see the following things: ability to grow well ability to grow well WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CAPITAL based on reputation and […]