As soon as the horse bolts it becomes necessary to bolt….so we now will talk about REGULATING the wealth management industry: Let us see what can be done: – all wealth management contracts should be 43 pages and have 86 signatures. – if it includes Mutual funds, the trail commission that the wealth manager can […]

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Or should I have said happy HARVEST season! So happy Bhogi, happy Makar Sankrant, Happy Pongal, Happy Lohri…. these are festive days all over the country….North, South, West, East are all rejoicing happy kite festival to Gujarat… go and generally have fun….today and tomorrow đŸ™‚ and in the days to come!

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Well this note is about Michael Lewis (of Liars Poker fame)…he can write very well for sure Here he is writing about Greek bonds in Vanity Fair…and the article is hilarious. If you think Indian government is inefficient, you will see the Greek government is almost a joke. To call the Greek economy a third […]

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When it comes to Goal setting think of setting goals like an athlete. Let us take the case of a runner…he could set goals for a Personal Best, a meet record, a meet win, running the whole season without injury, managing health and weight within some parameters….this helps. Let us say the meet record of […]

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Americans are very nice people, but one thing is sure their CEOs run their companies for profits! Many of us think this is wrong. Double standards! Warren Buffet lobbies for S&P’s monopoly to continue…and then also keeps selling his stake. Make no mistake I used to be a big fan of WB not very long […]

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Vijay Venkatram of wealth forum …has done a detailed analysis of the mutual fund industry. He is asking a question uppermost in most people’s mind -are the men getting separated from the boys? Personally I wish he had done an analysis with just the equity fund – as one of the tables- which could perhaps […]

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Last week I was travelling and therefore watched Television – and it was Utvi Bloomberg that I watched. Here the very sensible (and not so shrill) Surabhi Upadhyay was doing a program on debt reduction / consolidation. Funnily it is perhaps the only program on the borrowing side. Most other channels and ‘personal finance’ experts […]

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