there are many lessons for the retail investor from the budget: 1. It is a very important event if you are running a blog, website, channel, magazine, newspaper. It allows you to have a lot of chance for creating content. 2. No impact on the common man from an investing or tax planning point of […]
This is a fantastic headline to catch people’s attention, that is all. I have no clue whether the market will go up, go down, remain sideways,….NO CLUE at all. I mean it, really. I was in a bank class when the index had reached 10,000 (year 2008 I think?). One of the kids asked me […]
Well way back in the year 2001, we were a group of people who attended a mutual fund training program. Here we were taught some very important things. One of them was “Who can invest in a mutual fund” ….Uma Shashikant gave us this answer: Now let us see who all can invest in […]
I have heard this statement from so many people – it hardly matters about the age of the person or the gender! Largely life is about being happy and successful. Each person has to decide what is being happy and what is being successful. Now success is a function of your job x the money […]
This story is so good that I have re-re-reposted this for the newer readers. Of course we all read it as a chapter in English, as a poem, and as a story. There is perhaps no better story than this to keep ones EGO under check. It is Ego which is the biggest killer even […]
This is a pure humor column…figures are completely wrong, but I guess the trend is correct…. 150,000 people selling mutual funds (read as UTI), post office products, etc…. Exam introduced by SEBI (people wrongly call it the Amfi exam) 10,000 people selling UTI products Exam introduced in Hindi 85,000 people have passed the exam…now it […]
As far as my view on the economy is concerned, frankly it does not matter. Here I am with Peter Lynch – if I spend 10 minutes on finding out how the economy is doing, I think I have wasted 7 minutes at least. However there is too much media, student, colleagues, friends pressure to […]