One of the best sales men I know told me “You must watch Rocket Singh” – to me this is not a great advise – my movie watching is very, very little if at all. However I did watch Rocket Singh. I now feel all my ‘friends’ who are not in the sales profession […]

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How does a financial planner answer this question? or change it to “market is rising, what should I do?” It is really difficult, right? Ok let me try. If he is an equity buff he is likely to say “Keep investing, in the long run equities are the best asset class and you will get […]

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Over the last many years after interacting with people I still cannot understand human behaviour. I can only say that I tried doing something! Over the past 3 days we did an event called the “India investment show”. Fund managers, analysts, company managements, come and make presentations – and the common man can walk in […]

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When it comes to analysing corporate performance, individual investors are surely at a disadvantage. You will find it difficult to know how many cars Tata Motors will make in 2009, how many hotel rooms Indian Hotels will be able to sell in Europe, etc. However the “international” fund manager has access to all this and […]

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It is customary in film circles to say “i was inspired by Kishore Kumar or S D Burman or …” what have you and then copy their song – either partially or in toto. In fund management too you can copy and the advantage is your money in the bank, is yours. Your money does […]

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The best thing that life insurance business has done in India is it has eliminated mis-selling in mutual funds! How is this possible? Simple the rewards for mis-selling in life insurance plans is far, far greater than mis-selling in mutual funds, so many of the players have shifted games. That brings us to the question […]

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