Actually I am not sure whether this is a post on retirement or financial education. Or like a friend says all my posts are on financial education…. The financial services industry uses terms like financial planning, life insurance planning, retirement planning…..but the common man has found out that all thes are sales pitches, right? So […]

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  Either Financial Service Companies are really worried about what some people like me think of them, or there has to be some other reason that I cannot understand. Two companies met with me in the last fortnight, and both meetings really had me a little puzzled. Unlike most other blogs/ websites I do not […]

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Well there is a document on the Sebi website saying a lot of good things…however if you remove a simple TRANSPARENT and quantifiable charge like entry load (1% of the amount invested – i think it is clearly visible, right?) and replacing it with a RECURRING regular charge (including on EXISTING ASSETS I PRESUME) …IS […]

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It is generally believed that all the MBAs that you recruit come with great communication skills – but may lack in depth knowledge. Experience has taught me one thing. You cannot draw conclusions based on one or two students or colleagues. To draw a conclusion, you need a huge, huge database across genders, medium of […]

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Not sure how many of you read about the prosecution of HSBC in UK… Whenever I speak to big branded banks they tell me how – – they have a fantastic risk profiling process – due diligence done on all products, issuers, exchanges….blah, blah, blah – how the client has to sign off on all […]

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When you grow up in Ghatkopar and live there for 3/4ths of your life, most friends tend to be Jains. So over the next few days a lot of them will call me to say ‘Michhami Dukkadam’. And as is wont, I will repeat it. I am communicating far, far more on my blog than […]

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No this is not an article of whether you should buy life insurance from a bank or from an agent…it is just leading to an article on MoneyLife. Agents tell me ‘we cannot sell a wrong product to the customer, because we have to go to the same guy again and again, but bank managers […]

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