J Dey was a journalist – and I believe he studied in Fatima High School, Vidyavihar, my alma mater too! While switching channels between Discovery and Music India..i happened to hit a news channel. They announced that the Mumbai Police has cracked the case, Chotta Rajan’s henchmen killed J Dey and the sharp shooters have […]
For readers of my blog this is not a new news. I have not been a fan of any businessman who is more into ‘market capitalisation management‘ rather than business management. When the Reliance Power IPO came at Rs. 450 I did not apply though of course there are many people who applied. I wrote […]
The blurring lines between what is media and who is selling a product is really painful for the end user. Let us say I was running a website (and my income came from the number of people coming to my site, a.k.a. advertising) I have to say certain things.Imagine a website which says nasty things […]
It is quite surprising that there is a BIG rich much higher stake financial stake life insurance industry which is being made to look like a villain. The Mutual fund industry is supposed to be a good one which charges much lesser than the life insurance industry. Amusing. Ask a distributor, it is far more […]
If porn is expected to excite you – emotionally well financial news papers do it just as well as the television media! I decided to be as free of emotion (:)). So I decided to pick a news item which read like this: ” …the firm in its report ..said also pointed to continued EROSION […]
So SEBI has one more work for mutual funds. They are supposed to be the conscience keepers for corporate India. Good news. Next they may be asked to get a ‘good behavior’ certificate from unit holders – saying I will redeem them only for legitimate purposes. I will not use the proceeds for buying a […]
What ails the life insurance industry today? Well the biggest worry is lapsation. They have other worries too – like the Swarup committee report, the small ticket size, the poor public image, the lack of communication skills in the sales force…but clearly the biggest worry is lapsation. It beats me completely as to how an […]