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, […]

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“Invest like Mukesh Ambani” or “Invest like Warren Buffet” or “Vallabh Bhansali”…are all very sexy and very very media like advice. And typically stupid, wrong and impossible to implement advice. Do not even read such articles further. Face it. Whatever it is, in this birth you are not Buffet, Ambani, Jhunjhunwala or Bhansali. Fact is, […]

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A friend called in to say ‘Subra even if one reader can start saying “I s…..d up and have made investment mistakes’ instead of saying the following: a. my aunt is an agent so I took a policy b. my father asked me to buy a house c. my relationship manager CHURNED my mutual fund […]

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Hey Doctor Get Rich…was the original title of a book that I was writing for doctors. However ‘getting rich’ is normally not a good ‘professional goal’. For most doctors, lawyers, chartered accountants, even actors,  – though money making is important, it is not all encompassing. For example a doctor working in the slums of an […]

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This is a joke on financial advisors.   A rich man changed his advisor and was not to happy. While at a club, his friend asked him – hey how is your new advisor. The rich man said “Oh! he is good. After shifting to him, I sleep like a baby. I cry every hour!! 🙂

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