Amazed that in a country where every data and content aggregator wants your data and articles free….there is speakasia.com! They want to pay me for MY OPINION and the opinion of other people that I am able to collect. More amazing that people believe that this is a marketable product and 19 lakh people are […]
In the pre Sebi and pre NSE days, the BSE (actually it used to be called The Stock Exchange, Mumbai) used to do its settlement once in 15 days. Then it came down to once a week… This meant a lot of weak players would do transactions for a much longer period than what they […]
I have a few friends, cousins, etc. who ask me BEFORE THEY INVEST…here is an email that got forwarded to me saying…sounds too good to be true, want you to say my decision of saying NO is correct… I have reproduced the mail here..was sent by a National Level Distributor (not a bank) …clearly violating […]
I was so amused at a suggestion that Rs. 100 will be paid as a one time transaction cost for some select mutual fund agents, that I have no clue how to react. Yesterday 2 media companies wanted to know how it would work. I said I have no clue – will they pay Rs. […]
If a company declares a dividend and the customer does not claim it what happens? Well it gets transferred to the Central Government. What happens in case of a mutual fund where the investor has died and the family does not know about it. Well, er, the fund keeps it. Well technically I may be […]
When you handle personal finance you need to be a little soft, a little hard and sometimes cruel. It is like giving medicines to a kid. Not many clients want to listen to bitter advise. Imagine a professional who wants to invest Rs. 3 crores in a business, where I think he will earn only […]
There is some advise that you keep getting from the media. You have heard it so many times that you know that it is correct (or the person who is giving, the journal, the channel, all of them believe)…but most people do not know how to use it. So I call it brilliant, but completely […]