Good morning Mr. Subramanyam, this is Mr. A Saxena from Metlife Insurance company, can I speak to you for 5 minutes? Me: Yes please go on… Saxena: Sir you have 3 policies of Metlife which has expired, and ML has returned only Rs. 25,000 to you. Actually you have paid Rs. 125,000. We found that […]
For all those who think that ‘Buy and Hold’ is an easy investment strategy, welcome to this post. This is one of the toughest strategjes to implement. If you think you can buy some shares that are currently being touted on Cnbc everyday and like Rip Van winkle wake up after 20 years, you are […]
the media is a fantastic predictor of what the future will look like…neither are they able to predict tomorrow’s index, nor oil prices, nor interest rates. however after an event happens, they still continue to look, talk and feel intelligent…and without an apology. if you think I am talking about Cnbc, well the others are […]
Today (Saturday 12 May) 3.30pm and 8pm(repeat telecast) and Sunday 1pm and 9pm in case you decide to watch Cnbc Awaaz…you can see a program called Pehredar…Priyanka Sambhav hosts the show…. today it is a case of ‘mis-selling’ by Met Life Insurance agent. My views…I will do a story a little later on…
It was really long ago when I met Mr. Ramesh Chauhan, the erstwhile owner of Thums Up, Limca and Gold Spot. It was some time in the early 1990s that this deal happened. I was asked to do a valuation of the brand – and well, I did it. The final selling price was very […]
tuesday….the day after Mahashivratri…will be on Cnbc awaaz along with Swati Kumari answering questions on INvesting..in Hindi…..
here is what I said on Cnbc TV…about investing in Mutual Funds…. there were 3 people asking questions…and clearly they were investing nice amounts for long periods of time. I think all 3 did not understand the POWER of compounding. the first caller was investing Rs. 15000 pm for a period of 20 years..and wanted […]