All finance company shares are up and in the sky. With p/e ratios in the 30s and even in the 90s. Let us ask ourselves some basic questions. What will really happen if Tata, Birla, LnT, Shriram group, Religare, Indiainfoline and a couple of others do get a banking license? To start off, there will […]
There are many people in the financial services business whose main job is to sell financial products. What they have been called has changed over the years….but largely the job is: 1. looking for a good product 2. tying up with the manufacturer of the product (a company which wants money or wants to lend […]
What Greg Smith said in his resignation letter about GS is not a surprise, is it? How many of you were ‘surprised’ at the tone or the content of that letter? Not sure how this is as a career move for him, but I guess it will work. He will be snapped up by many […]
I met a well to do Financial Advisor, or rather should I say almost Ex-Financial advisor. He is in the business of mutual fund distribution, given up life insurance and general insurance distribution, does not entertain clients any more for direct equity, and does financial hand-holding for SMEs. He tried his hand at fee based […]
Markets fell by 340 points yesterday and has fallen 260 points already today. For people like us markets means sensex! So what to do? I have so many panic sms coming to me! The worst thing to do is to stop the sip! Remember if you had a COMPULSORY SIP….you would have continued to invest, […]
hi looking for some real life experiences of people who have been cheated by a finance company, broker, distributor, unit linked plans, …anything in the process of compiling some case studies for bunch of people in the below the poverty line….. please send it to subramoney.rich@gmail.com thanks!
I wish I had joined the mafia – at least everybody would KNOW that I am a bad man! A friend of mine in a high position in a big finance company told me this yesterday! The following are a mix of my views and partly his lament! Having seen Investment banking (I think a […]