Ok not exactly poor, but you are 30 years old, married to a 28 year old earning well but BROKE. Poor maybe too harsh – but if all you have to show for 6 years of working is say Rs. 10 lakhs in the bank, well you are almost there. Your story? Let me tell […]

Read More →

Too many people in the media are obsessed about fund management costs. This is not a bad thing – after all this is the ONLY thing to which we retail investors have access, right. Fund managers on the other hand (ok the 3-4 fund managers who I have spoken with and who have over the […]

Read More →

How much is the government of India deficit and how much lower will it go according to PC? Well it depends on how you look at the deficits, and what bank NPA number are you willing to believe. Hmmm When some deals happen you keep wondering ‘How do such deals happen?’ . In a public […]

Read More →

I had done the following post in the 1st week of June, 2006. Except for the numbers, the story is just as fine. It originally appeared in the Personal finance section of moneycontrol.com Okay, so the market fell 1,100 points on 22 May 2006, it fell 350 points on 31 May 2006 and another 327 […]

Read More →

Is the bear market over? Are we in a bear market? These are questions that I have to face in every classroom that I enter….so here is my reply. Frankly, I do not know. But surely the index is a far cry from 21000 index that we had seen earlier this year. Is this the first […]

Read More →