Let me start with a caveat. I do not benefit at all if you invest in equities. Or if you buy real estate. Or if you keep your money in banks or LIC. I am indifferent to what you actually do. Why should it impact me at all? Except that in a kinda roundabout way […]

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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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A friend called me with a surprising question. Let us call him M.D. He bought a house in Navi Mumbai for about Rs. 80 Lakhs, – of this about Rs. 55 lakhs was funded by a loan from the State Bank of India. Over the last 4 years he had paid a lot of interest, […]

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