Mark Mobius and Dubai

Mark Mobius the famous fund manager (incidentally he runs the most disciplined scheme ever in India – Templeton India growth fund, the only fund in India that has been ALWAYS true to label) says the next ‘Dubai’ could be in Mumbai or Shanghai.
One kid in our office excitedly rushed to me (working on the Bloomberg [...]

Investment styles and mistakes

These are stories about a few friends.
I have 2 friends – aged about 57 years. They were classmates and are now very close to retirement. Their investing philosophies are so different that I could not believe that the accumulated amounts could be so far away from each other. One of them did his MBA and [...]

Facts about solar power: Source SolarAid

Once in a while at least we should look to helping others. Like in an old Hindi movie Amar Prem Rajesh Khanna tells the villian “Even animals look up while eating, as if thanking God for the food that it has got”. As human beings let us do our bit. There is an organisation (UK [...]

Mutual fund loads abolished!

Year: 2009 Month: July Mr. C B Bhave abolishes mutual fund loads.
This event of abolishing loads by SEBI (on the mutual fund sales) there is increasing pressure on other regulators to reduce charges / fees. So the following scenario can emerge:
IRDA has decided that all life insurance products – term, unit linked insurance, endowment and [...]

Total mutual fund costs

One amazing rule of investments is called the ‘Golden Rule of Investing’. The Golden Rule says “he who has the Gold, makes the rules of investing”. If this post gets you nostalgic, you must have been born in the 1960s!
Once upon a time there used to be a ‘ring’ in The Stock Exchange (you dummy [...]

Real estate: Hidden costs

It is amazing that financial services – mutual funds, life insurance and banking are seen as villians in terms of charges in a country which has so many real estate deals!
Who can become a builder, who can become a broker, how much brokerage to charge, should prices be quoted for built up, super built up….NOTHING [...]