find ‘gym’ and replace ‘financial planning’ ….and u will know what it looks like…. A friend introduced me to the owner of a nice gym in the suburbs of Mumbai. He has a nice ‘civil service’ background but quit all that to start his own gym. While talking to him I came to some fantastic […]
When any asset class goes up and keeps going up…people start finding reasons for the same. Normally you cannot find a reason. When you cannot find a reason, you have to say ‘Buyers are more than Sellers, so prices are going up’. Hey, this is just not sexy enough for our media. Imagine me going […]
For many companies – which come under the MCA mandate there is a need to file their annual returns in xbrl format. This happened because there were some companies which were filing very poor quality of info while filing the details with the RoC. The sad part of non compliance by a few people is […]
small investor, financial literacy, financial awareness, financial inclusion….what an amazing array of words we have created for bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen, capital market pundits to meet and eat! Frankly if you want to climb the Himalayas you need to join a Gym get into good shape and then climb the Himalayas. In the investment arena you […]
When you see news items like IPO subscribed 40 times, or 200 times do you wonder how? Or when L&T finance debentures at 8.5% p.a. gets subscribed, do you wonder why? The answer is very simple. Merchant bankers are a nice small clique who also run PMS schemes. So when the ‘Investment Bank’ goes to […]
http://www.subramoney.com/personal-financial-planning-workshop Wockhardt and then Emaar had withdrawn their IPOs. Withdrawn was a joke. The public did not buy them, therefore the issue had gone back. What was the learning? Even 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 […]
Many people ask me why I suggest New India for medical insurance, but never suggest LIC for life insurance. The answers are simple. Medical insurance is a simple product and the probability of getting a good interpretation of the policy is quite high with New India. In fact if you have not lied in the […]