In the past I had done 3 articles calling the article ‘ranking trap’. These articles were written on 5th july, 20th july and 19th dec. Using past data to judge is height of “&^%$#*” – fraud or comedy depending on your point of view. Mutual fund ranking is a fantastic money spinning game for most […]
A couple of weeks back I had written a post about how the slow down will hurt some industries. Fairly clearly those companies (industries) which have a high cash burn ratio – and who cannot reduce fixed costs will bleed first. Financial services industry – life insurance, broking retail, general retail – are all vulnerable. […]
I deal with the financial services sector in a major way. This means I deal with employees, trainers, vendors, owners of companies, etc. largely in the financial services sector. This sector over did everything from 2002 to 2007 – like all other sectors in the economy. Having seen salaries go up from Rs. 1.8L for […]
Yesterday I ran the Standard Chartered Marathon. Maybe I used the wrong verb – I walked much more than I ran. However, there were some lessons. I had done the marathon in 155 minutes in the previous year (year 2008) and set myself a target of 145 minutes for this year’s marathon. However my sincierity […]
I must consider my self very, very lucky. During the Harshad Mehta Boom, I bought an office space for personal usage. When the index reached 21000 I had no reason to sell. However just luckily I decided to get out of some very high price earning stocks like Tata Power, L&T, Hdfc, and invest in […]
The equity markets will improve in 3 months, 7 months, 9 months…..you have heard them all, have you not? Let us see what is likely to happen in 3 months. The global auto market will not improve, we cannot see any great recovery in the US auto – so the Indian suppliers will not benefit. […]
this appeared in the personal finance section of reuters.in under my byline Escape from Debt If all the people who talk to me are sensible, well educated people, how is it that the Human Relations Managers of many companies call me for asking questions like “Can we do a 3 hour session on how to […]