Is there any similarity between running and investing…well a few for sure. Investing is normally for a long term – as is running. The shorter form is called trading and among runners it is called sprinting. So when a runner says he is a short distance runner – it means he runs 100m (sprint) to […]

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It is already 15 days into the new year …and some of your resolutions are looking like ‘OMG did I really make it?’…let us see what can be done to make them stick. 1. Know why the resolution was made: If you said ‘i will get fitter’ – it really means NOTHING. Absolutely nothing at […]

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I have been accused of the following: Keeping gold prices low. People losing out chance to buy gold/ land / real estate because of my writing. Hilarious because I have rarely taken a stand for or against. I do not consider it for my portfolio – SHOULD mean nothing for you. I have consumed about […]

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When I ran the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (scmm) in the year 2011, I was an amateur walker and used to run only the Scmm – and had done little by way of practice. I did the 21.09 km race in 2:50 – which was about 5 minutes MORE than my target time of 2.45. […]

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Many people go to the gym – and one associated expense is the Personal Trainer. Do you go to they gym? Do you feel the need for a Personal Trainer? Let us look at the cost of going to a Gym. Annual Fee: Rs. 35,000. And a Trainer should cost say Rs. 6000 a month. […]

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Long long ago – at the beginning of 2008 perhaps – one fund manager told me ‘Subra the best, Golden Run of our lifetimes is over’ to see the index go up from 3000 to 21000 in 4-5 years is a super dream gone right, may not happen again. We then spoke about how we […]

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Two hobbies of mine are running (long distance like the 10k and the half marathon) and cycling. Now long distance running and cycling are both endurance testing rather than speed and strength testing. However, I need to increase my speed – so that I can finish in decent time if I enter a competitive race. […]

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