It was in 2008 when the first time one Indian regulator used the word REIT. Many people in the industry got excited and the media said this will bring real estate within the reach of the common man and about US $ 10 billion will flow in. I had seen the regulation and asked one […]
I am perhaps one of those rare people who say ‘An investor is personally responsible for Ruining his portfolio’. Of course there are people who help him on the way, but primarily he and he alone is responsible. A financial planner makes some assumptions about client behavior. Let us see some of the impossibly irrational […]
This question can come up at any stage in your life. For some people it comes up while in college itself, and for some it comes up when they are 2 years away from retirement. If you are a young fresh employee or are married and hoping to buy a new house, this is […]
When you are young peer pressure is difficult to handle. However even when you grow older peer pressure seems to be difficult to handle. If you have created an image for yourself (which is not true) and you keep trying to live up to that image, you really struggle. How does one really handle peer […]
this is my article as it appears in Economic Times as it appeared…such articles generate a lot of anger…people who have bought neither RE or stocks will keep asking: 1. what if I had bought in Mira road instead of Santacruz? 2. Did the author do it himself ? 3. What nonsense is this? […]
When you end a relationship it causes some pain. Normally. And when you end relationships which were 28 and 35 years old, the pain should be more, right? Well, not really. You need to look at the good times, happy times and say ‘three decades of relationship is enough’. Ok let me break the suspense. […]
This is a partly hypothetical and partly actual conversation. Not naming the people, area, location, – does not matter. It was one of the not very expensive kinda hotels and it was empty. A few over grown kids were talking about their parents…. The first girl said: My dad will not wear a shirt costing […]