Recently I rounded up 10 friends and asked them to gjve a hurdle rate that their investment should give. Most of them had 8% for debt instruments and an amazingly fantastic range of 12% to 40% when it came to equity. Some of them BELIEVED that real estate HAD already given about 24% return over […]

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Recently I have been inundated by mails, sms, calls asking for the head of a person who had done a story on how FD returns were better than equity returns over a 20 year period. Now doing data driven stories in India is JUST NOT POSSIBLE. Not possible at all. Why this sweeping statement? Simply […]

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Many young couples I know shudder to think of having a kid. One of the guys told me ‘I am still a kid…how can I have a kid‘. And he is 29 and so is his wife. This is not a class on whether to have a kid, but for those who have a kid! […]

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