I have been speaking to people who are about to retire or recently retired…and this is a kind of trend that I am seeing: a. They have NO clue about how much they will require for a comfortable life ahead. b. For many of them they say TAX is a big worry. c. Not enough […]
Well this is not really about me quitting teaching, but somebody else. However I also quit teaching after teaching for just 20 hours in an MBA school. I vowed that I will NEVER go back to that school. Then I said I will never go back to teaching a full course. A single lecture is […]
It is customary for older people to talk about the loose morals of the younger generation, the increased corruption, and lamenting ‘In our times things were not as bad’. Frankly some of the horror stories that I have heard in banking channels makes me wonder, if I have no clue of the eps, why bother […]
Either Financial Service Companies are really worried about what some people like me think of them, or there has to be some other reason that I cannot understand. Two companies met with me in the last fortnight, and both meetings really had me a little puzzled. Unlike most other blogs/ websites I do not […]
I do not know much about the other industries, but the financial services industry has a lot of interesting behaviour… The life insurance industry had a product called Classic Endowment Policy. This was a compulsory saving and risk cover product where the returns were a function of how well the fund was managed, how the […]
Yesterday i was watching an episode ‘Crime Patrol’ on Sony TV. I have no clue of the names of the characters, but that does not matter. The story is about a young businessman based in Gujarat…and he thought he was being smart. Sad, as the case is, he was actually getting his family into […]
I am not even getting into ‘Ulip vs Mutual funds’ – the experts know it, right? I am trying to see what are the mistakes they make when they buy Unit linked Insurance plans. This is not an exhaustive list, it is just on the basis of interactions that i have had with my readers […]