Was speaking to a senior person in the life insurance business. Interesting times indeed. Sales are down, and you think ulips are not selling? You gotta be wrong. This company has appointed a big National Distributor to sell their products. Obviously they are selling wrong. Clients signatures are forged, signatures are ‘photoshopped’ on the form, […]
Many clients, students, readers and friends call back saying “This xyz person is offering me 36% returns on life insurance policies” is it possible?” Sometimes they send me a mail…and the company could be anything from A to Z… My answer has been “The fact that you are asking me shows you do not […]
Relationship managers never had it so bad! Whatever they do, the client is not happy…and keeps threatening to walk away! Relationship managers have a lot of work to do – and one important job is sales. When they sell…they sell. So they have targets, they must keep talking…and life is really tough.. One important thing […]
If I were to define a millionaire as a dollare millionaire…that would at least make the club a little exclusive. If it is a millionaire – Rs. 1 million – i guess everybody walks into it :). Millionaire today has lost meaning. I guess the Indian equivalent should at least be ‘Crorepati’. Here are some […]
I have not been able to answer this question for myself – forget answering this question for others. There are 2 big company CEOs who constantly have their portfolios reviewed by me – the equity portion of it. One of them is in financial services. There are 3 fund managers who talk to me at […]
On the 10th of June I travelled to Chandigarh and back. This is a little difficult because you need to take a morning Mum-Delhi flight, then fly Delhi-Chandigarh if you want to reach by 11am. The other choice is to take the GO Air flight – I am not very comfortable simply because of the […]
When the 3 auto majors seeking publice money came to washington – they obviously came by their own private jets. It seems true that the senior executives of companies have forgotten to fly commercial. Of course it can also be justified that they travelled with their entourage of secretary, assistant, …etc. and it was cheaper […]