Many people go to the gym – and one associated expense is the Personal Trainer. Do you go to they gym? Do you feel the need for a Personal Trainer? Let us look at the cost of going to a Gym. Annual Fee: Rs. 35,000. And a Trainer should cost say Rs. 6000 a month. […]

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  Not long ago I used to appear on TV at regular intervals. The channels that I used to appear regularly are ET TV, Bloomberg Utvi, and much less frequently on Cnbc and Cnbc Awaaz. So obviously PR agencies had seen me – and two of them approached me. One of them said ‘look at […]

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How funny we keep seeing this cycle of ups and downs…In an up we believe there will be no downs…and in a down we believe there will be no up! I thinking cycling and running – two things that I do help you handle such situations well! If it is a route you know (or […]

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XBRL filing – is up and running! Iris Business Services Limited was the first company to file it – they filed it at about 2.30am Saturday! Many companies are trying to file – and I believe many are failing. Clearly it is not an easy thing to do. You need a software to do it […]

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  Either people do not understand or do not want to apply common sense….so some investment myths continue. Let me list some of the emails that I have received recently…. 1. ‘What ever you say about Gold, NO OTHER ASSET CLASS has given the kind of return that gold has given in the last 40 […]

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How stubborn can Central Bankers be? It is surprising – and I am not saying it is easy to be a central banker..just commenting. Inflation in the US and UK are about 5% – if you ask the people living there (increasing ‘consumer confidence’ is inflation assisted). However the Central Banks are refusing to believe […]

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First of all, I hate predicting – especially if it is about the future! Having said that it is necessary to look at some of the over optimism that is there in the market and at some of the problems too. So today let us look at the issues: A stagnating Europe and USA will […]

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