I have done many posts on whether a parent should pay for the children’s higher education. Taking a stand against it causes people to ask me the following questions: 1. if i have money what am I going to do with that? 2. what is wrong in paying for a kid’s education? 3. will YOU […]

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Here is a mail from a reader A….a. I cannot profile her, I know not. Assuming she is a typical middle class person…her experience is interesting. Looking for comments from readers on what she should do… “Want to share my experience with the readers and Subraji. 2 years ago I and my husband bought amulya […]

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The number of school teachers in the country is quite a large number – surely runs into tens of millions. Is it surprising that there are no websites or books meant for teaching investing to school teachers? No. Actually it is not. School teachers in India (on an average) are paid pretty badly and do […]

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Not sure how many of you will believe this, but when the DLF scrip was quoting at Rs. 1200, I asked the research head of A BIG broking firm – whether it is worth buying. He said ‘Sir based on MY accounting tolerance this share is worth Rs. 400 based on boss’s accounting tolerance and […]

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We just saw…part 1 of ‘should I retire at all’…now here are the hassles – or why I have been having these doubts! Here are the reasons: Of course the most important question is “Will my corpus last 4 decades….for me and my wife to survive on”… 1. In India we have NO social security […]

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Recently saw a ‘reputed’ group promoted life insurance company treat its employees shabbily. Norms were made to sack people. So a large scale sacking happened. When the large scale recruitment and branch opening was happening we were at the side lines saying ‘chuckle, chuckle…’ Now we cannot say chuckle, chuckle,…because a few thousand jobs have […]

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Obama has made a passionate speech – while talking of reviving the economy. He has said his main focus will be on: education     health   transportation     alternate energy   defense    —— and there are websites dedicated to see how this is going to generate (or lose) jobs, etc. What looks like a nice ‘want to do’ may […]

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