Yesterday I got 2 mails / comments one said a. your blog is too simple and the second b. your blog is too complicated. I could not agree more. This is like being asked to speak to school – and all the kids from class 1 to class X being the audience. It is really […]

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  Maybe because I am in finance or for whatever reason many people tell me stories of financial fraud. The most dangerous are the ones involving finance and Senior Citizens.  Story No. 1:  One senior citizen without too much knowledge of banking processes and documentation asked his close relative to withdraw money from the bank. […]

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Nirmal Jain of Indiainfoline is a sensible businessman who needs to and will do business in India. If you seriously look at his business model, it is the funding operations which is really making money. In the financial services industry, broking, mutual funds, life insurance – NOTHING is profitable. One HFC told me – we […]

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In the 1960s if you wanted to buy a house, it was considered almost impossible to get a home loan. It was only in 1980 that Hdfc started giving home loans – and that too sensible amounts. That explains why Hdfc is so popular – people love the guys who gave them the HOME. Especially […]

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sorry I am unable to put the link to that story….because of some WordPress problem…i am unable to link anything to my stories.   Dna did the story and i have tweeted about it on twitter and fb…but not able to put it on my blog..check out DNA for the story..Sucheta and Debashis have also […]

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Subra, my money is safe, I bank with a mnc bank. They have fantastic internal systems, audit, well paid and well trained people to look after my money. They have a fantastic ……. Really? And I have dealt with banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, IFAs, ….and I know this is a wishful statement, not true. […]

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  I have said this in the past too….and saying it again… “I have NO clue about what attracts big companies to the financial services sector” – repeat a zillion times. None of the so called ‘big groups’ have ever done well in financial services. Whether it is the Tatas, Birlas, Sundaram,….really only Hdfc as […]

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