In 1991 Prime Minister Narasimha Rao brought liberalisation to a practical level. Departing from the Nehru-Indira’s uneducated guesses on economics, what Mr. Rao did was path breaking. Sadly Sonia is back in power -(and BJP’s stint did not matter) and we are back to our so called social ways. Take the case of the sugar […]
“My husband does not lose money in equity markets – you know we doubled our money in the Maruti IPO’ vow I said…and as usually probed …. she said “Oh my husband only applies in an IPO, so he says we cannot lose money”…vow! There are 2 routes to the equity market. One is called […]
When I ran the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (scmm) in the year 2011, I was an amateur walker and used to run only the Scmm – and had done little by way of practice. I did the 21.09 km race in 2:50 – which was about 5 minutes MORE than my target time of 2.45. […]
PSU companies make profits only if: – they have a monopoly – price is controlled or quantity is regulated – the market is very unfair – there is so much profit that all companies make profit. PSU banks fall in the 4th category! The government owns about 25 banks – and it has no reason […]
Today sadly, there is no pension plan which meets all your requirements. For example Templeton and UTI (both asset management companies) have a pension plan – and it is a one size fits all type of a plan. Typically a pension plan should have various options at the ACCUMULATION stage – when a person is […]
Look at some of the excuses that people give for not making a will: – I have a lot of money, but so do my kids. They will not fight for Rs. 50 lakhs. So true. I heard of a family which fought for Rs. 50, 000 crores, I am sure you did to! – […]
The Quarter ended – Oct, Nov and Dec 2011 will perhaps see the worst results. This is because this is the Q that will see the full impact of high interest rates, the worst economic data (cause and effect are very difficult to know), bad mood, …etc. When these results are announced, people’s worst expectation […]