I recently wrote a piece on ‘Make your own financial plan’ – this appeared on yahoo finance and some of you may have read it. What is amazing is the response that I have got for the same. Largely saying the following: – future is uncertain, SO DO NOT PLAN. – equity markets are too […]
We all need our fix. Cricket is a big fix (no pun intended!) and IPL is a great way of making money for everybody. Including the poor artist Sachin Tendulkar who obviously will claim 80 RR benefits as long as he can get it. Of course the powers that be decide that CSK should reach […]
Amazing how Sebi even under Mr. Sinha is trying to increase costs for the Mutual fund industry’s investor… there is no doubt that the mutual fund industry is suffering from the after effects of Mr. Bhave and Don Quixote. However when Mr. Sinha came the industry was (perhaps) hoping for some relief. Well what has […]
there are many lessons for the retail investor from the budget: 1. It is a very important event if you are running a blog, website, channel, magazine, newspaper. It allows you to have a lot of chance for creating content. 2. No impact on the common man from an investing or tax planning point of […]
Either I am being very touchy about ULIPs or Endowment plans in general or too many pro-ulip articles are appearing in the print media also. The big worry about using numbers in an example is to know enough about statistics – mean, median, mode, standard deviation and NOISE. Noise is the distortion that is caused […]
at various levels the common man has been told lies. The common man being the common man, he believes the newspapers, the television channels, the experts who come on television, the advisers, the media experts…..and everybody and everyone. Let us see some more of the lies that he/ she believe: 1. India is a socialistic […]
A few days ago I had done ..a post called Investment lies that you have been told. Was not sure whether I could find enough..but here is a second set..I think it can go on for a few days. Would love it if people told me WHY I think it is a lie..some of them […]