Who pays the highest amount of tax in the country? Mr. Ambani? or Mr. Narayanamurthy? Well neither. Let us see the life history of a typical government or a bank employee. They join for service after a competitive exam – after that they are happy to hold on to that job for life. They earn [...]
September 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Economy, India, Investing | 4 Comments
Copying is very difficult especially if you want to be the first! How can you copy from the second best and be first? So that makes copying difficult. However you could take parts of many and look original…then you need not defend your copying! Warren Buffet made most of his money by staying and investing [...]
July 14th, 2010 | Posted in Equity | 2 Comments
People ask me what should a financial planner do? Well if I were to write a book on financial planning, I could write a few chapters on this topic. One thing however he MUST do is ask you a lot of questions – some painful. For example when I talk to a new, unknown person [...]
July 1st, 2010 | Posted in Financial planner, Personal Finance | 3 Comments
I have been inundated by brokers and issue managers alike about why the Stan C public issue of IDR (Indian Depository Receipt) is such a great product. I agree. I would love to have a big global bank with aggressive growth plans in markets like Asia, Africa, …and other parts. So inspite of the fact [...]
May 24th, 2010 | Posted in Economy, Equity | 2 Comments
Let us see…getting rich is easy is it not? Get a good degree ——> It will lead to a great job—-> You will earn a lot of money —-> You have got rich. This is one route. Well there are some issues – every body cannot get a good degree..so the scheme is torpedoed at [...]
March 6th, 2010 | Posted in Financial planner, Uncategorized | 9 Comments
About the Book : – To most people retirement is an age. It of course depends on your health, the company you work for etc. However in the first chapter I would like to introduce you to the concept that retirement is an amount of money! After all, if you have that magical amount why [...]
January 17th, 2010 | Posted in Budgeting, Equity, Financial education, Mutual funds, Personal Finance, Retirement | 18 Comments