Does every business have to be profitable? To the common man, yes! Not true, not true, not true at all! Many people do businesses to: – keep themselves busy – to show to the world that they are doing a big business – hoping to make money 10 years, 20 years or 30 years later! […]
RBI is the banking regulator and obviously it has a role in development of the banking industry, right? Well, over the last so many years what is the penetration of banking in India? Well about 6-8% of the country’s population has some access to banking. Why we do not have banks with EXCLUSIVE mandate to […]
When I wrote in 2006 ‘you should take a term life insurance of Rs. 1 crore’ many people wrote to me saying: – he must be a life insurance agent – this is not for the middle class…how can we pay thousands of rupees premium? – if we put all our INVESTMENTS in life insurance, […]
You walk into a life insurance company and buy a life insurance policy for Rs. 7934/- per annum for a Rs. 1 crore sum assured. The company accepts the cheque and asks you to go for a medical test. What are the scenarios that can happen? Best case scenario, they can say, yes you […]
Very few people even think they need financial advise. The usual reasons why people think (or they tell me) are as follows: 1. I do not earn enough to seek the services of an advisor: Well, well anybody and everybody thinks that their income is just too small for them to seek the services of […]
In most companies the people at the HO hate the guys who go out and sell. Make no mistake most companies hate the sales guys – employees, agents – are just nomenclatures. By any name they are hated. The company – I mean the ‘HO’ people LOVE the cheques they bring, but hate the sales […]
Have you wondered why people make mistakes while buying financial products? Well here is what I think: 1. Products are complicated: Most financial products are complicated. This is absolutely necessary so that the charges can be well hidden. 2. Salesmen are always in a hurry: This is easy to understand. They are paid for closing, […]