I meet all kinds of kids – and it is worth seeing their attitude towards money and their parents…. Some kids think that their parents owe them a living! Some kids hate spending their parent’s money – even a farthing! This is not about their attitude, it is about their ability to communicate with […]
this was written in 2007-8 and appeared in an abridged form in moneycontrol …. Hello, Congrats on the nice job you have got! With a degree from an Ivy League school this was a nice job to land. I know you have majored in Finance and are hoping to make money by the tons. […]
So sad we do not have a Dalbar (an US based research firm that compares returns of stock and bond markets with those of individual investors) research on Indian investor returns! Just released in the US it has 2 startling facts: Over the last 20 year period the Standard& Poor Index returned an annualized gain […]
A friend is trying to be as environment friendly as possible…or as less damaging to the planet earth. Actually he says – it is just like going back about 60-70 years and lead a middle class life style. Let us see some of the things he does: drinks water from an earthen pot takes bath […]
Unless your parents have set the Thames, Ganges, Kosi, Nile on fire, chances are they have not managed their investments well. They may have done well, but it may not have been their strategy – could be luck! So here are somethings that your parents / elders / teachers may tell you…and you should…ignore! […]
Whenever you interact with people and are in some service – or when you are taking risks, making things happen, interacting with others, or in the public eye – you are bound to make mistakes. This is like if you are cycling the question is not ‘have you fallen’, the question is ‘when did […]
Wealth creation is a time consuming, easy to understand and very difficult to implement process. There are no cut fast rules on how to create wealth. Deepak Parekh, Uday Kotak, Rashesh Shah, Nirmal Jain, Raheja, Hiranandani, are all people who have created wealth by the greatest method. Run a good business, leverage with people […]