There is a provision to increase the expenses that the ‘aam aadmi’ will pay for the services of an asset management company…so welcome to the party. I mean the party that the AMCs will now start having. What are my objections to the new provisions? Frankly, I have no strong opinion on what the […]
When I say banking, I mean banking, broking, mutual funds, insurance, software companies in the BFSI space. So let us revisit the laws: 1. Golden Rule of Life: He who has the gold makes the rules. If your name is Diamond, even better. 2. Salaries are NOT decided by demand and supply: It is […]
Hi my definition of a youngster – for this post – is those people born say 1980 and later. This post was triggered by a comment on the annuities post. Let me enumerate: 1. Most of these people started their working lives say from 2002 onwards. So from 2002 to 2007 they were told by […]
It was about 10 years ago that I suggested an asset replacement fund for a friend. He and his wife were just starting life and wanted to save/ invest in a scheme which would gather enough money to buy assets. Assets in this case were actually expenses (but we cheat ourselves by calling them assets). […]
Look at the financial mess the Government of India is in! Thanks to some traditionally told lies, Governments all over the world have far, far more debt than what they can honestly repay. Big large countries like the US have already cheated the world by making their currencies worthless. Look at what Mamta didi wants! […]
No clue how the market will react to this news of Fidelity being taken over by L&T Mutual Fund! I have had a couple of calls from investors in equity schemes who may pull out their money. However Fidelity has a lot of institutional debt which may not panic from this change of management. It […]
Remember the Slumdog Millionaire movie? Well, they picked up a kid from the slums and made a movie based on the book by the same name. The kid from a slum was scrubbed, cleaned and fitted into a world of ‘clean bodies and unclean souls’. So far fine. Now this kid went from slum to […]