Continued from yesterday posts…the remaining 4 reasons… #5 ULIPs are Very Poor Investment Vehicles: Well for people who can reverse engineer a ULIP, there are ways to make ulip efficient. However, as a general rule, ULIP is a bad/ terrible investment. Normally it is ULIP which is sold as a child plan (assuming that the […]

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The BSE Ltd’s initial public offer (IPO) is set to open on 23 January 2017 (hey tomorrow!). So, technically you have a chance to own a bit of a stock exchange. Nowhere in the world have they tried to kill the stock exchange – there is no unregulated market place for shares. Today you can […]

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Q.  We are considering purchasing child life insurance (Ulip) for our little girl. We have been reading various articles in the media and are seeing a lot of different views on this. My husband told me that you do not answer specific queries, but I still took my chance. What are your views? A. No. Nein, Nyet, […]

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for those who think that I speak only about housing finance….Well Sumaira has not called me for a long time…but here is a show on Value Investing…

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I have held many posts in the advisory and investment management business. The posts I have held – I continue to hold some of them – are investor, trader – position trader and day trader, value investor, deep value investor, stag, broker, primary market underwriter, research analyst, research analyst for a merchant banker, personal finance […]

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Since everybody has a budget wishlist, here is mine. I know this wish list will be read by about 7000 people over the next 2 days. Some people will say ‘how good’ some people will say ‘how stupid’. I know this will not reach Jet Lee. Not that it matters – the Baboo(n)s do what […]

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