Suppose you have bought a policy from one of the life insurance companies (classic endowment) and wish to surrender it, what do you do? Go to the life insurance company and say “i wish to surrender this plan please”. They then follow a very complicated path and tell you how much they will pay you. […]
Yes you read it right! You are reading www.subramoney.com and you are reading ‘buy real estate’. Well let me explain the context. In many local businesses the location of your place of business is critical for its success. If you are a doctor, run a gym, a hotel, a hair-dressing saloon, bank-ATM, etc. your ‘customers’ […]
Three questions, same answer! 1. Subra I have been paying an annual premium of Rs. 10,000 for the past 7 years, but the amount accumulated in my ULIP policy is only Rs. 59,000. What should I do with the policy now? My agent tells me the upfront charges which were high have already been paid […]
The Quarter ended – Oct, Nov and Dec 2011 will perhaps see the worst results. This is because this is the Q that will see the full impact of high interest rates, the worst economic data (cause and effect are very difficult to know), bad mood, …etc. When these results are announced, people’s worst expectation […]
People keep asking me ‘Have the markets bottomed out?’ To me the answer is NO. I am not saying that you should wait for the bottom – I have my shopping list and have already bought some shares, but no we may not be at the bottom. Friday was a shopping day..and I did buy.. […]
I was stunned when a guy whom I was interviewing said: “Sir Real Estate Prices DO NOT GO DOWN..I have been in the markets for 5 years, and in Navi Mumbai where I have been doing Loan against Property sourcing, I have not seen real estate prices come down, EVER”. Another student/ candidate said: “Sir […]
Well this is not a ‘how to guide’ – just a talk that I had with a ‘turn around’ specialist. I met him at a social function and what he said was interesting. Hence the blog article. Many of the things he told me were intuitive. So I will not dwell on things like cut […]