One reader called this column “Malice towards one and all” . Sorry Kushwant Singh, you are not alone. I have also done a ‘Round and About’ and started in on a Saturday by saying…”All this is my own work…..”Sorry Busybee, sorry Late Beheram Contractor. Let us check out some history of investor protection. It is […]
I am a part of the team that does a column called “Portfolio Doctor” for Money Today magazine. This column is very popular – and the requests for being featured far, far exceeds the number of columns that can be carried. So here is what the editor of MONEY TODAY has to say about the […]
Today we will se how the other (vociferous!) distributors will react: These are the smaller distributors who were getting 2% (atleast) to about 4% as marketing fee. However this money was coming from the client – and many clients did not know about it. However many distributors were giving all their ‘income’ back to the […]
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!! 🙂
Clients regularly ask for “How much will my investment become in 22 years?” Really, I have no answer…so this is how I have decided to react. Do you want a policy illustration or a knock on the head? Now that I have to show you an illustration, I will. However that will have to be […]
Wockhardt and then Emaar have withdrawn their IPOs. Withdrawn is a joke. The public did not buy them, therefore the issue is gone back. What is the learning? In a rising market nobody, really nobody has any interest in saying that the issue is overpriced and the end customer should not subscribe. A greedy promoter […]
What a sensational rumour! The sensex is down because a big group which was holding a lot of share across various counters today continued selling! There was a vested interest for a lot of people – a big power IPO has many stakeholders you see. So all the kings men and all the kings horses […]