There is only ONE reason why people get into debt. Living beyond their means. Make no mistake there is just one reason. However when people get into debt, and when they come to me, they justify on various grounds…I have very little sympathy -Satyam is never Sundaram, but always SHIVAM!! What are the main reasons […]

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Ok This is not about Friedman’s book…it is just that last week I got confirmation of this! In a complex world with a lot of barriers to information flow, it was possible to make money on information arbitrage. Not sure how many readers will believe that in the 1990s it was easy for foreign banks […]

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Most people I know spend less than what they earn! I wish I could say ALL people I know spend less than what they earn…well they do not. Why do I keep harping on income and expenditure, because it is not easy for many people to comprehend. Let me see how simple I can make […]

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Many people send me their portfolio and ask me to review it. These are the tell tale signs of a losing portfolio: 1. People who brag about their ‘success’ : One person who was so proud of his investment in one particular scheme. He said it had given him a 32% CAGR over the past […]

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Have you ever wondered why people close to you – brother, sister, in laws, friends, cousins, colleagues, do not seek advice BEFORE they buy a financial product? It is my job to wonder why, so I do. Most of the people who consider me their financial adviser (or at least think I know more than […]

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Funnily I do not get paid for the best investment advice that I have ever given! Let me enumerate some of the client questions which have been addressed in the negative. For a few of my clients the best investments are those that they did not make – but they do not know the value […]

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Many things in life are better achieved slowly if you want the gain to be permanent! Does this remind you of another boring task – the process of losing weight? If so, welcome! Investing and money management is a lot like eating. So is losing debt like dieting? maybe…maybe not. Is getting out of debt […]

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