I have written many pieces on ‘buy or rent real estate’. I have got feedback saying ‘If my father had also bought a flat…I would not have bought’. That may not be the right argument. It is a person’s migration from one level of strata to the other one which is marked by ‘buying’ a […]
I am creating a few hypothetical examples. Hypothetical for you, real for me. These are all friends, classmates, neighbors,….I want a reader feedback about their life insurance needs. I will then react to the feedback. Story 1: Mr. Rajesh is a well off builder and like a lot of my friends lives in Ghatkopar. I […]
This is a very, very old story and posted earlier, Now reposted, sorry! Kachua is an old client of mine – filled up SIP forms and keeps doing the SIP – now for almost 10 years. Kharghoshs were referred to me post 2008, in tears and in Red. Not sure how long they will last […]
Are the Indian promoters who destroy shareholder wealth the worst in the world? Or are there some who are worse than that? In the American context there were AIG, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae… or should we talk about the worst environmental disaster by BP? Well well, the list is long is […]
Once upon a time long long ago I was part of an organisation which did the statutory audit of Hindustan Petroleum. My contempt for Public Sector Units only grew greater. However the people working in some of these organisations were far, far superior to some of the guys I met in the private sector. However […]
A couple of days back I had reproduced a letter from a grateful life insurance nominee. Let me tell you what led to that story…. Here was a young person (aged about 40) who had died. He had 3 life policies from Cos. A, B and C. For obvious reasons, the names cannot be given […]
Insurance is about answering questions like ‘What if something were to happen to me?’. Since most of the times we do not have an answer for questions like ‘What if…i were to fall down…’…or many other ‘WHAT IF’ kind of questions – see this article on Money Mantra… http://www.moneymantra.co.in/insurance.html