The cheer leaders are screaming once again – welcoming the 10,000 index. Whether it is television, print, or the internet – all of them have headlined the great reclaiming of the 10k index. The typical middle class guy is happy, but of course skeptical. The questions he is asking are the following: Will this market […]
this appeared in the personal finance section of reuters.in under my byline Escape from Debt If all the people who talk to me are sensible, well educated people, how is it that the Human Relations Managers of many companies call me for asking questions like “Can we do a 3 hour session on how to […]
Recession, slow down, pessimism about the Indian economy (of course because of the recession in the U.S. economy) are words that become common place in local lingo! Everybody and his aunty is now convinced that the Sensex will touch 5000 very soon, and the last place to be investing now is the equity markets. […]
Costing is a difficult subject. It is difficult not only when you are a student (ask anybody who has passed CA in the ’80s) but also in real life. However it can at least be attempted. However benefits are far more difficult to quantify. When people ask me what is the cost of term life […]
Over the last 2 days I heard a few stories. Quite stunning, I should say – either I am too old or the newer generation of people think completely differently from what I think. Let me narrate them. The first is a fine example of why the Americans are in a financial mess. There is […]
Real Estate: Greenspan Is Right? Alan Greenspan said falling home prices in America are “nowhere near the bottom”. Y V Reddy has been talking of an asset bubble for quite some time, but in our euphoria we chose to ignore him. Deepak Parekh has been shouting that real estate prices are far too high for […]
Even as I send e-mails regarding investments in Real Estate , I get a worried response ,” is this the right time to invest ? “. I am a die hard Real Estate Investor and just as Yash Raj Films cannot help churning out movies, I like to keep ” Investing “. But back to […]