Internationally as well as Nationally it is now well known that meditation is playing an important role in fund management. Either it is a confirmatory bias – I know more people in the BFSI space so more stories are reaching me, or that meditation itself is getting very popular. Whatever it is, meditation seems to […]

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Normally there are a few times when people are serious about their goals: When they are trying to lose weight (I am talking about the serious guys n gals) When they are trying to write an exam (you know a 6 month effort can impact your NEXT 60 years!) When they are trying to meet […]

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The mutual fund industry is cribbing about there being no investments. Of course there are no investments. The industry has spent all its time pampering, requesting, cajoling the distributor. They have no direct communication with the investor. Do the fund houses need the distributor? Yes. What a tight situation, is it not? Has any fund […]

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This is a very old story…you can attribute the wise man to be Moses, Buddha, Tenali Raman, Birbal….choice is yours. The story goes like this…. There was a man who was digging a well. He was hoping to strike water soon. One man came up to him and said ‘Arre you are digging for water […]

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Somebody sent me this…and it is a source I trust. Rarely do I put non finance stuff on the blog…but this is relevant I guess: Here are some bad habits which cause damage to the brain: No Breakfast People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads […]

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Awake! Arise! Stop Not till the Goal is Reached said Swami Vivekananda. He was too much of a Motivator to be called a Saint, and too Saintly to be called a Motivator. Of course he was not like today’s Motivators..if only he had left tapes, videos, …it would have been great. His books stir you, […]

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While doing a risk review of a portfolio, I stumbled on a portfolio with 55 mutual fund schemes and 52 direct equity investments. When the investor asked me what was the risk, I said there was ‘concentration’ risk. I also told him he was running the risk of ‘over-diversification’ . He asked me to speak […]

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