Honest to God, this conversation is not an exaggeration. Please read it, and tell me how useful this advise was: Anchor: Sir, when buying insurance should you buy insurance or an investment too. Expert: Well you should look at all the features. Normally people buy life insurance to get the 80C benefit. Which means in […]
So the marathon season is upon us….and many of us would have registered for it. I have been convinced that I should do the full marathon only after I can do the half at better timings… So next year I hope to do the full marathon if I do the full this year at sub […]
If you are an accountant, a company secretary, or in someway connected with accounts and annual return, the first question you must have asked yourself is ‘Why XBRL?’ Correct? People do not like change. And this does not change. We will resist change – simply because we are used to a certain style of living. […]
Too much is made out of entry load, exit load, ulip, cost of fund management etc. Most of the loss (leakage) in personal finance can be attributed to the inefficiency of execution. Even good advice is lost to poor execution! Let me enumerate (Ripley’s should not use it in their Believe it or Not, please) […]
There are many stories that I have posted over the past 3 years. Alexander the Great…lessons The Yale Goal setting experiment The California story of the death of a scuba driver in a forest fire Arthur Ashe’s attitude Frankly I have not done enough research to see whether these stories are true or false. Neither […]
Yesterday a few people were screaming on Times Now….volume was down – I was watching cricket – so just saw a glimpse. I recognised Kiran Bedi..none of the others. It looks like Indians are losing patience with the government – and the government is not bothered. Be it the arrogance of Kapi Sibal, Pranab Mukherjee, […]
In all public forum nowadays (and even earlier) there is a tendency to blame the distributor. Let us see a typical debt market presentation: Fund manager: Hello, today we are going to talk about debt funds ‘Debt funds have done extremely well over the past few years….’ Journalist: Why is there no retail participation? FM: […]