Buying any financial product is not easy. Let us look at a product like life or even general insurance. Fact is, you are buying a ‘security’ – you want to be reasonably sure you are dealing with a good company, right. What do people look for: 1. Can I buy it online: Ease of [...]
here is a letter that I received..if it were true, I could have paid a dollar for everybody clicking on my site…alas, i think it is one more junk mail..but it makes interesting reading, does it not? read on: How are you today? I must say that I have enormous respect for you considering [...]
I have always held the view that you should have your own medical and life insurance – do not trust your company to cover you sensibly. Most general insurance (medical) decisions in corporate India is a finance and HR decisions. Rarely, if at all are they equipped to handle this decision. Let me give you [...]
Many clients, students, readers and friends call back saying “This xyz person is offering me 36% returns on life insurance policies” is it possible?” Sometimes they send me a mail…and the company could be anything from A to Z… My answer has been “The fact that you are asking me shows you do not [...]
Believe me, buying a financial product is as traumatic as sitting with a doctor and discussing a report saying you have some killing illness. I am connected to many CXOs in the financial services industry and there is perhaps not one brokerage firm that has not offered its services to me. Among other accounts I [...]
I know one lady whose husband is a graduate working in the Gulf. Typically like every Gulf employee he too is paid better than say an India job, but you really cannot get RICH on a job as a clerk. So her get rich quick schemes have included collecting money for shady chit funds, shady [...]