When I say ‘Retire’ just too many people think it means old age. Sorry wrong understanding. Retirement, let us redefine. Retirement is when you can do what you WANT, not what you MUST. You do not HAVE to earn to pay off the EMI. Or for paying for the kid’s education or marriage. Thus retirement […]
A friend was investing in a company which was listed about 2-3 years back, and he was about to invest Rs. 20 crores. Not a small sum and he just chatted up with me. He mentioned and asked me whether I knew the company. Sadly, I did know and did not know anything good about […]
Not sure whether to be in the same league as Azim Premji is a good thing or not… Long ago when Rs. 30 lakhs could have bought me 2-3 flats in Ghatkopar I had to make a payout to my customers…and my broker defaulted. I tried all legal methods to get money out of him […]
If you have wondered how the ultra-rich manage their money, welcome to the world of Family offices! Family offices are private advisory firms that serve ultra-rich clients. When a client has a large amount of money to be managed and needs a full fledged infrastructure to do that – a banker, a Chartered Accountant to […]
A senior official in the corporate affairs ministry told ET that “Icici Ventures wants a probe covering the entire working of Subhiksha to uncover possible mismanagement”. This is amazing. Icici ventures has also said that the accounts for June 2008 has not been presented to the Board of directors. And yet in Oct, 2008 they […]
A couple of weeks back I had written a post about how the slow down will hurt some industries. Fairly clearly those companies (industries) which have a high cash burn ratio – and who cannot reduce fixed costs will bleed first. Financial services industry – life insurance, broking retail, general retail – are all vulnerable. […]