How many times have people told you “you should invest like Warren Buffett” or ‘You should invest like Peter Lynch’. Let us face it. You are Parag. NOT Warren Buffett or Peter Lynch. So you cannot invest like them. Let me tell you what one promoter told me once. He had controlling stake in a […]

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Many of us pretend to understand risk and think we are fully prepared for it. Wrong. Most of us are hoping that since our parents did not face risk, we will not face risk. Let us look at some of the risk which we pretend will not happen to us, because so far it has […]

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If you have wondered what are soft commissions here is the answer. There are some legitimate expenses and some not so legitimate expenses. Soft commissions are what sales people call ‘entitlements’. It could be in the form of a contest – the top 100 winners go on an all paid trip to South Africa, Goa, […]

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The last 30 hours have been overwhelming. Sitting in Navi Mumbai, I feel safe at having escaped this dastardly attack. It soon struck me that I am safe but only until the next attack. I was wondering whether we have got so indifferent to pain that we might end up saying “Oh, the terrorists have […]

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