Funny when we started life, there was a lot of time and a lot less money. I am not even getting into whether we were happy or sad. Growing old has one great advantage – you fantasize about the past. You think politicians were honest (that’s true Pramila Dhandavate and Madhu Dhandavate were still alive), […]

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Well, one equities dealer was caught with his hand in the till….he is said to have benefited by Rs. 2 crores. Hdfc Trustee company has been fined Rs. 55 lakhs. The structure of an amc is such that the Trustees are responsible to certify that the internal processes are fine and working. Obviously it was […]

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I normally do only subject matter training. This is capital markets, financial planning, etc. etc. However some of this spills into a sales / attitude training too. In the sense that people ask me ‘If the client says….what should I say?’…I realise that selling life insurance or mutual funds is a really taxing and difficult […]

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The number of posts that I have written about my investing blunders keeps me wondering how or what kept me going at all! This blunder is perhaps the biggest of them all. A quick recap of my life and timelines is necessary for this. In 1986 I qualified as a CA and got into practise. […]

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