http://www.subramoney.com/personal-financial-planning-workshop Wockhardt and then Emaar had withdrawn their IPOs. Withdrawn was a joke. The public did not buy them, therefore the issue had gone back. What was the learning? Even a rising market nobody, really nobody has any interest in saying that the issue is overpriced and the end customer should not subscribe. A greedy […]
Many people ask me why I suggest New India for medical insurance, but never suggest LIC for life insurance. The answers are simple. Medical insurance is a simple product and the probability of getting a good interpretation of the policy is quite high with New India. In fact if you have not lied in the […]
this is the second part of the confessions of adviser’s / relationship managers some of the things that i wish to tell my client, but cannot! 1. When I asked you to sell (index 21000) you said ‘it will go to 25,000. Later on you say “You did not say it strongly enough”. Man, you […]
If you are old enough to remember what is LBO it means you were born in the 1950s or 60s! LBO is a short form of Leveraged By Out. Here a set of employees would get together and decide to buy out the shareholders. Then they would take the company public and make their $ […]
Banks lending in rural India is a great thing to have happened. Most people who borrow are genuine -but there are some politically supported borrowers too. The main reason why a person in India (or in any part of the world too!) repays the loan is ‘because it is the right thing to do’. This […]
When the 3 auto majors seeking publice money came to washington – they obviously came by their own private jets. It seems true that the senior executives of companies have forgotten to fly commercial. Of course it can also be justified that they travelled with their entourage of secretary, assistant, …etc. and it was cheaper […]
The US government is pouring out AID this week to a number of financial companies under several of its recently instituted ‘support’ programs. Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo, and GE Capital are now in various stages of selling bonds backed by the government, thus lowering the rates they would have […]