Insurance policy surrender, MF or equity exit…

Whenever people ask me ‘I have made this investment (life insurance policy, mutual fund, equity shares, house -does not matter) – should I keep it or should I sell it? Immediately they tell me the cost….paid Rs. 6L premium for 4 years, bought this house for 73 lakhs, …and now the value of the portfolio [...]

Money Management or Career Management?

Generally investment managers emphasise a lot on financial or money management for all the people they meet. This is of course nice, their job depends on the assets under their management, so they should do this. Let us look at it from the ‘investor’ or ‘client’ ‘s point of view. When you are young (say [...]

Advice for the small investor…

Thanks to my style of writing many people ask me ‘What should be the strategy of investing for a small investor’ – the answer is simple. However we are Indians and we do not like simple things. If you have a brilliant mind, and think you can make money in your profession, and managing money [...]

Exchange Traded Funds…simple no?

Well this is not an article on Exchange Traded funds, but there is a link at the bottom which will take you an ETF article. The financial services industry (like all other industries) is very smart. Highly qualified people – from CPAs, CAs. CFAs, engineers, PhDs…..have to be kept intellectually occupied and financially happy. To [...]

Damn you Subra, damn you!

Here is a rejoinder from a FP…he/she does not want to be named. Subra read your blog, it is good…really good and sums up the situation. Let us look at it from the planner’s point of view. The client does not respect the planner enough (your argument that respect has to be earned is well [...]

How to select a financial planner?

The frankest answer is I do not know. However I do train lots and lots of people so the easiest thing is to pick a phone number and give it to you. Or even worse put a few numbers on my blog / site. Well I do none of these..instead here are some suggestions (some [...]