We want a swanky airport like New Delhi. We tell our friends Delhi airport is better than…..name it and it is likely to be true. However if DIAL were to levy a Rs. 350 levy on passengers, we do not wish to pay it. We want good, swanky, financial services companies – mutual funds, […]

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When it comes to investing in equities, it is nice to have a lot of rules. This means your full portfolio behaves to certain rules. Rules can be made for: – Stock picking,  Stock review, Portfolio balancing, re-balancing, diversification, …. HOWEVER IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO KNOW why it was made in the first place. […]

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I have written many pieces on ‘buy or rent real estate’. I have got feedback saying ‘If my father had also bought a flat…I would not have bought’. That may not be the right argument. It is a person’s migration from one level of strata to the other one which is marked by ‘buying’ a […]

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How many of you have grudged your friends who say “My father had bought a flat in Santacruz for Rs. 200,000 in 1977, now it is worth Rs. 20,000,000” – surely you felt pangs of jealousy did you not? Did you think…if I had this I could have retired instead of suffering this boss? You […]

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