Recently I rounded up 10 friends and asked them to gjve a hurdle rate that their investment should give. Most of them had 8% for debt instruments and an amazingly fantastic range of 12% to 40% when it came to equity. Some of them BELIEVED that real estate HAD already given about 24% return over […]
Every cheque that you write is either an expense, savings or investments. Sadly not everybody knows the difference between the three. In fact todays plan includes telling you that there are 2 types of investment too! OOPS, right? Ok..when you go to a hotel and pay for the food, it is an expense. This […]
If you are a Tata Motors watcher, the sales of Nano should worry you, right? Well, not so fast. The sales of Nano will not do any great magic to the sales of Tata Motors. Nor will it affect the margins. To make an impact on the books of Tata Motors, Nano has to sell […]
The US is not a socialist country. It is in fact a capitalist democracy. So the people can choose what they eat, what their children eat, how much to save….correct? Well, that is what I have been told to believe by some authors of Economic Thought. However in real life capitalism is about lobbying. For […]
I know of a person (whose wife was cribbing to me!) who gets into a new hobby every 1-2 years. That is not so bad. He gives up on the hobby with the same enthusiasm with which he started it. It could be anything. Suddenly it could be wine making. Or Golf. Or Photography! Only […]
Personally speaking credit cards is something I lived with for most part of my life. Till it became embarrassing not to have one. I needed it for travelling, ticketing on the net, etc. so I got one. There are many ways how a person can use his credit card sensibly. As far as I can […]