At what age should one retire? How much money should a person have for retirement? Is retirement an age or a sum of money? Are there any great activities that I love to do which is PULLING me towards retirement or is the calendar PUSHING me towards retirement? These are questions that an individual […]

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Well none of us know what next…but let us look at the crystal ball: – we are at 16,200 on the sensex as I write this post. Do not rule out a 25% jump in about 12 months time – which is more than 3 years yield in the debt market. – we all knew […]

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From all my posts if you have come to the conclusion that I am against PSU companies, you may not be very wrong. Are the employees in these companies to be blamed for their plight? Yes and No. I have known extremely committed and well meaning PSU employees. I used to know a person in […]

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Now that the mutual fund industry is doing badly, we all need to do something to keep it alive. Why should it be kept alive? do not ask such stupid questions. We should keep it alive, so it should be kept alive. Here are a few suggestions: 1. Every stock broker should be forced to […]

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Subra we may be a great marketing and distribution company, but we are no patch on the steel, cement and finance companies. This was said by one of the World’s great FMCG company….this is so true. Let us see how the real estate market works AGAINST the renter and FOR the owner: 1. ‘You cannot […]

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Yesterday evening a friend called up to say ..in 1995 we saw the birth of the Mutual Fund industry in 2015 will we see the end? Well to start with there is no ‘take over of a mutual fund’ as the whole world will report today. I think L&T Asset Management Company will take over […]

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No clue how the market will react to this news of Fidelity being taken over by L&T Mutual Fund! I have had a couple of calls from investors in equity schemes who may pull out their money. However Fidelity has a lot of institutional debt which may not panic from this change of management. It […]

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