I am perhaps one of those rare people who say ‘An investor is personally responsible for Ruining his portfolio’. Of course there are people who help him on the way, but primarily he and he alone is responsible. A financial planner makes some assumptions about client behavior. Let us see some of the impossibly irrational […]
People ask me what should a financial planner do? Well if I were to write a book on financial planning, I could write a few chapters on this topic. One thing however he MUST do is ask you a lot of questions – some painful. For example when I talk to a new, unknown person […]
I interact with a lot of youngsters. I mean from age 21 (fresh graduates), 23 (fresh MBAs) up to the age of 30- and a few who are older too. I would have said Young, Fabulous and Broke – but Susie Orman uses it regularly on her show! I do not think there is a […]
Hi Mr. Subramanyam, I am regular reader of ur blogs under Subramoney.com and they are really impressive and knowledge enhancer. However I am always of the opinion that in our country small investors are being always taken for a ride by these so called ‘SHARKS”. We always end up saying that one should have ‘Good […]
As a financial planner I do spend a lot of time with 16 year olds working in call centers, media companies, banks and so on. When I am with them and discussing their problems, the one question that often comes to my mind is, “If these guys cannot make their monthly salary stretch one month, […]
Last week Business Standard wanted to use one article from my blog..I was happy..and would have been happier if they had said….article by P V Subramanyam, Chartered Accountant, who runs www.subramoney.com… but they decided to say P V Subramanyam…Certified Financial Planner… well I am P V Subramanyam but not a financial planner..and that too not […]
We have all been using toothpaste, shampoo, soap, malt drinks, Bournvita, Horlicks, Complan…..even though we may be new to life insurance, pension plans, etc. If you see the pictures on the cover of the items that you buy you see pictures of how much to use. The toothpaste cover shows toothpaste from one end of […]