I was talking to a friend in the US of A…he was amused by the statement of some of the “big” banks who said “we will recover our sub-prime losses by our fee-income in Asia”. Fee income in Asia – read India and China has to go up so many times :). Read an article […]

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To win the elections, we will go to any length. Since we do not have anybody auditing our books, we will cook, lie and cheat, so is the Congress slogan. To help Chidambaram say he has controlled the “inflation” at 4% per annum he holds the price of petrol and diesel at $ 50 a […]

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Many people have asked me this question based on my advice not to borrow! Well I am not against borrowing at all! After all I hold shares in India’s biggest mortgage company, and some banks. So please go ahead and borrow, I have to get my dividends, do I not? However, on a serious note, […]

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7 money lessons to teach your kids Tell your kids, ‘Money is the root cause of all good!’ Of course, the line is from Ayn Rand. We are in the grip of an exam fever with all parents busy with an ‘open day’ in school before the examination. Then, there will be a vacation – […]

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 As a financial planner I do spend a lot of time with 16 year olds working in call centers, media companies, banks and so on. When I am with them and discussing their problems, the one question that often comes to my mind is, “If these guys cannot make their monthly salary stretch one month, […]

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