A few days ago I did a training for a Wealth Management Company. Not too keen to mention client names..but it was a high quality client and had a lot of good, smart people. One girl who knew about this blog and my book – she wrote a piece and wanted to know whether I […]
I know parents of young boys and girls are going to kill me for this headline, but let me run a morbidity risk… When 2 young people get married they are starry eyed. Some of them even get married because of love! Well whether it is an arranged marriage or a ‘love’ marriage (which means […]
If you are a kid earning money – say you are about 25 years of age, do you ask yourself ‘why should I save money?’ Well if you are from an Indian family, chances are you have seen the people around you save money. Your parents, uncles, aunts, neighbors, bosses, colleagues – all of them […]
Welcome the Bear Markets! Although we are seeing a furious rally last in the past 4 months, are we already in the bull market or is it just a bear market rally? If you said “I do not know”, welcome. This is a good thing. Smart and Legendary investors understand this. Ordinary investors don’t. If […]
If you want to get more things packed in a day, it makes sense to get up early in the morning! Well this would have been a completely unnecessary statement to be made – say 50 years ago. All our national leaders – Gandhi, Nehru, Rajaji, Vinoba Bhave, – all of them were early risers. […]
Past performance is not an indicator of future performance” — the literature of every mutual fund you own, mentions something to this effect. In fact once, when I was lecturing at a mutual fund house, which was not performing well, one of the managers said, jocularly, “Can we say our past non-performance is not an […]
Let me start by putting in my disclaimers. I do not read too many other blogs, but once in a while a friend / reader / student sends me a forward and I read it. These are perhaps not very palatable, and is bluntly on your face kind of observations, but as usual, Kalli Valli […]