One of the ways of getting financial information – and information about financial products could be the blog. Blogs are thought to be unbiased, but given the force of PR agencies and SEOs influencing blogs and the way people search…blogs may not be such a great souce. Competence among blogs is another major issue. The […]

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O M G!! You are saying good things about mutual funds?! This was the reaction of about 40 people I met last fortnight at a ‘pre-wedding’ food party at a Gujarati friends ‘so called’ party. The food was amazing and for a non 5* setting Rs. 1900 per plate was what I thought well, too […]

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For many people financial problems start with a good intention. Here is a case in point. One person I know has an uncanny ability to get herself into a financial mess. It would be difficult for many people I know to even imagine how ingenious she is in creating trouble for herself. One example here. […]

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There are a few people I know who keep chasing investment opportunities. There are some people who are good in one field – say sales, marketing, operations, dentistry, physiotherapy,….could be anything, so they think they are good in finance. Of course some of them visit websites, talk to people, read books and suddenly believe that […]

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Recently one Advisor (and his associated fund house) have been pushing me to invest in a fund of funds. I am a little scared about a super supervisor over looking my funds. However Quantum Long Term equity fund was being pushed to  me – really hard to invest in that fund. I decided to compare […]

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Invest in an index fund – they will outperfrom the active fund managers by a mile. This is quite a normal advise by many financial advisors – especially those who charge a fee for advising rather than a commission. Of course indexing has its advantages – one of the most important being you are not […]

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