At my age I should be on the side of the parents of 24 year olds – but funnily I am finding it difficult in many cases. This is perhaps because many parents are like Hiranyakashipu (please read Dasavatharam). Hiranyakashipu was a demon who had so much ego that he wanted to be God. People […]
Those people who pretend they know how much they are earning, spending, investing or what is their net-worth either maintain detailed accounts or are lying! The mind is a poor accountant, and it creates facts in such a way that is palatable and is socially right sounding! For example if you have spent on some […]
Recently saw a ‘reputed’ group promoted life insurance company treat its employees shabbily. Norms were made to sack people. So a large scale sacking happened. When the large scale recruitment and branch opening was happening we were at the side lines saying ‘chuckle, chuckle…’ Now we cannot say chuckle, chuckle,…because a few thousand jobs have […]
One very important thing to know while investing and hoping to create wealth is to know about smartness. Which means when you have a good fund manager who is willing to treat all his unit holders equally, you need not have a high IQ. Also when you are investing directly it is better to know […]
I could not agree more with you SJ! There is no doubt that all clients may not listen to you, nor should you expect that. After all we listened only to people who met 2 criteria: – we were sure had the competence to give the advice (first parents, then teachers, then friends, then parents […]
If I were to define a millionaire as a dollare millionaire…that would at least make the club a little exclusive. If it is a millionaire – Rs. 1 million – i guess everybody walks into it :). Millionaire today has lost meaning. I guess the Indian equivalent should at least be ‘Crorepati’. Here are some […]
One of the ways of getting financial information – and information about financial products could be the blog. Blogs are thought to be unbiased, but given the force of PR agencies and SEOs influencing blogs and the way people search…blogs may not be such a great souce. Competence among blogs is another major issue. The […]