Gold is under tremendous pressure internationally, so India may also see Rs. 25000 (just speculating, actually no clue) but Swaminathan A Aiyar says so in Economic Times. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/columnists/swaminathan-s-a-aiyar/gold-to-be-a-lousy-investment-in-the-next-decade/articleshow/19537567.cms I am not commenting on the price of gold at all. I do not think that to be a good investor you need to be playing the […]
Today’s Economic Times carries an article about SEBI wanting to create a committee to view/ review the qualifications by the auditor. Sounds good? Let us see what a sister organization MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) is doing. They get the significant Indian companies to file their Annual Returns in XBRL format. In the XBRL […]
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 […]
I have been hearing from friends about good real estate deals in US and UK. Not that real estate there is a good deal or a bad deal, but when you compare it to Indian prices, it surely looks attractive. It may also be some kind of a protection for people investing only in India. […]
If you hear I have been killed in a road accident, please ask for a CBI probe. The amount of immoral things that corporate India is doing (I am convinced it was not so bad earlier) is unbelievable. The sheer enormity hits you. I have been inundated with mind boggling stories. Many of them involve […]
How to marry a billionaire is a question many people reading my blog may be interested to know…here is an article..which seems to have a slightly ‘female side’ bias. However it has some useful tips. However it comes a little late for many of the readers of this blog – I see the average age […]
if you are an investment adviser…or a coach..there are 2-3 topics which get close to one’s heart 1. the most efficient use of one’s money and 2. start early and the power of compounding today’s Indian Express carries an article on Rent vs. Buy – funnily no Indian website carries a rent vs. buy calculator […]