When a person joins a company (actually any job – bank, government, army, private sector….) he/she gets an appointment letter. This letter has a ‘Gross Cost to Company’ figure…which looks good and impressive…say Rs. 600,000. Now the kid who gets this letter thinks he is going to get a cheque of Rs. 50,000 every month. […]
Here are some excuses that normally people give – I have a simple job for you: Please find the questions for which people give these excuses: 1. I have no time at all: ‘Subra you do not understand. I have a job, it has some stunning deadlines, I travel a lot. I…..’I just do not […]
I have said this in the past too….and saying it again… “I have NO clue about what attracts big companies to the financial services sector” – repeat a zillion times. None of the so called ‘big groups’ have ever done well in financial services. Whether it is the Tatas, Birlas, Sundaram,….really only Hdfc as […]
i do a post a day for sure…today I missed it, an absolutely no clue why. actually i have 10-20 posts already done and a date put on them…just missed 3.april. i was attending a bhoomi poojan of a builder friend…so did not check the blog too… anyway the bhoomi pooja was good…
Well I have always wondered about statements like ‘the numbers tell you the story’ or ‘numbers lie’ …well Numbers may not lie, but liars figure a way to present the numbers LIKE THE TRUTH! Let us look at some numbers….Recently I got a post on FB showing the claim settlement ratio of the life insurance […]
Does every business have to be profitable? To the common man, yes! Not true, not true, not true at all! Many people do businesses to: – keep themselves busy – to show to the world that they are doing a big business – hoping to make money 10 years, 20 years or 30 years later! […]
The biggest risk in the financial services business today is the Regulatory risk. The more the regulators think that they can prevent frauds and cheating the more they will move into the controls of a business. Sebi has been making a lot of changes in the mutual fund business – there is a good chance […]