There are such dangerous things that people write, tweet, sms or talk to me about, I keep wondering from where they learn it. I guess it must be from some of the teachers in school, college or worse business schools. If you learn wrong things about physics or chemistry you will learn quickly and will […]

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I am very, very old fashioned in my ‘valuation’ techniques. If you search through my blog you will see a lot of posts criticising the new gen valuation techniques. I used to like the PDR – price to DIVIDEND ratio. Then my valuation friends changed it to PER (price earning ratio). Of course then there […]

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Many many and many more people have asked me this question. Why do I not teach at Business Schools? Well let me enumerate the reasons – not even hinting that there are no more reasons! 1. Colleges do not pay well: In Mumbai the kind of money one gets for teaching is so low that […]

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I wish I had joined the mafia – at least everybody would KNOW that I am a bad man! A friend of mine in a high position in a big finance company told me this yesterday! The following are a mix of my views and partly his lament! Having seen Investment banking (I think a […]

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Almost every day somebody asks me this question! This question can take many forms – sometimes a student doing is engineering asks this question or sometimes it is the student’s parent asking this question. Even when a kid is 5 years of age parents need to plan for a ‘good’ education. Good education normally means […]

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