Internationally as well as Nationally it is now well known that meditation is playing an important role in fund management. Either it is a confirmatory bias – I know more people in the BFSI space so more stories are reaching me, or that meditation itself is getting very popular. Whatever it is, meditation seems to […]
There are such dangerous things that people write, tweet, sms or talk to me about, I keep wondering from where they learn it. I guess it must be from some of the teachers in school, college or worse business schools. If you learn wrong things about physics or chemistry you will learn quickly and will […]
For those who do not know I have not changed my broker and doctor for the past 33 years – and it has helped. My doctor is a homeopath who believes in detailed questioning, some little diagnostics and almost zero medicines. He has kept me off medicines for the past almost 30 odd years, and […]
The perennial search for quick money takes us through lot of unknown routes. It takes a lot of hard work, luck, government lobbying, team building – to create companies like Tata Steel, Hdfc, TCS, Infosys, Reliance, Honda Motors. It takes years, if not decades to create good companies too! However a few people feel (and […]
Try being a senior citizen in this country! Just day to day living is made tough by the service provider. Make no mistake when I saw the ARPU for airtel going up, I was happy – I am a shareholder and my latest buy was at 276! So in this bad market it is making […]
Well this is not about Animal farm. It is about the state of the life insurance industry in India. Let us see the imaginary conversation between the LIC and Ministry of Finance. LIC: Good morning sir. Here is a cheque for the IPO Government Nonsense Ltd.’s public issue for Rs. 8000 crores. I hope the […]
Here is a rejoinder from a FP…he/she does not want to be named. Subra read your blog, it is good…really good and sums up the situation. Let us look at it from the planner’s point of view. The client does not respect the planner enough (your argument that respect has to be earned is well […]