Financial Services…
Thanks to my degree, having been a member at the exchanges (albeit corporate), and having been in training, I keep meeting CXOs of mutual funds, reporters and journalists, life insurance companies – and a couple of times even banks. Amazing how they can say the same thing… – invest for the long term -‘I am […]
Golden Run…
Long long ago – at the beginning of 2008 perhaps – one fund manager told me ‘Subra the best, Golden Run of our lifetimes is over’ to see the index go up from 3000 to 21000 in 4-5 years is a super dream gone right, may not happen again. We then spoke about how we […]
Why buy gold?
I am not getting into whether you should buy gold or not buy gold. There are enough people on both sides. I am on the side of Warren Buffet, and the only gold I have is what has been gifted to me either at the time of my marriage or somebody else’s marriage. Here is […]
It is a fair world out there…..and all pigs are equal….
George Orwell. Not a name that many of today’s kids are familiar with. This guy George wrote two books – both became famous. One was a satire on Russia – ‘Animal Farm’. The most famous dialogue in that book was ‘All pigs are equal. Some pigs are more equal than others’. Last week (mid Aug) […]
Can you do your own Financial Planning?
Many people ask me- will I be able to do financial planning myself? My answer is sure, but if you are a student of financial planning or the head of research in a pharmaceutical company trying to do your own financial planning, you need to know the following things before you start. Just check […]
How I lost a lot of money…
Not sure whether to be in the same league as Azim Premji is a good thing or not… Long ago when Rs. 30 lakhs could have bought me 2-3 flats in Ghatkopar I had to make a payout to my customers…and my broker defaulted. I tried all legal methods to get money out of him […]