From all the observing, talking to, investing for, and addressing doctors, here are some observations. Of the younger lot and the older lot: 1. They start earning late: Doctors, especially if they do specialisation and super specialisation start earning late. So when the money comes in, they start spending like there is no tomorrow. Why […]

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An amazing case of an old man (70 years of age) – I hope all of you read this. Here was a man who was approached by a life insurance agent who pitched him a product. Not sure if he understood anything of what was told or shown, he nicely signed (alas) and parted with […]

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here are pictures clicked by a friend…Parag Pilankar…available to you FREE….just go to his blog and down load he has tagged it by your bib number www.free300dpi.blogspot.inĀ – if it does not open please cut paste the link on to your browser… scmm14 scmm 2014 standard chartered mumbai marathon standard caharterd mumbai marathon 2014  

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When you meet ‘clients’ as well as ‘advisers’ I think it is a huge, perhaps, unfair advantage for a blog writer! So here are all the things that a client says about an adviser…..some true, some ridiculously funny, some downright stupid… 1. I also know that I should invest in good funds, what does my […]

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Banks are being nicely ‘co-erced’ by RBI to become brokers. This sounds like a joke – when IRDA asked for it, RBI said ‘no. they can only be agents.’ Now suddenly IRDA and RBI will think of this as a great move. That is exactly how regulators work. First they have to ensure that the […]

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Try telling people that saving/ investing money as well weight management have one thing in common – nice record keeping, and they screw up their nose! Are you in that category? Do you shudder thinking of the painful paper work or data entry on the comp? Then come to a simple rule of budgeting. Nothing […]

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Retire Rich: Invest Rs. 40 a day is a book written for the young population in the accumulation phase. Now it has completed MORE THAN 5 years in the print format and thanks to all of you has sold about 50k copies. Asking people here….what is missing in that book? I mean if I were […]

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