LinkedIn came out with an IPO and became an instant hit. I am personally against IPOs – and my reasons have nothing to do with LinkedIn. I am on LinkedIn and have benefited by being on it. However I am not for buying an IPO -EVER. Now LinkedIN was a company created in 2003 and […]
Caveat Emptor. I do not understand interest rates. To be more precise, do not understand interest rates at all. Many people in the floating rate model of interest for housing may not know that they are already paying north of 14.5% p.a. interest on their loans. Ouch. It hurts. For new buyers of big houses […]
Mostly people look for capital gains. Not sure why …maybe it is the media effect or friends effect.. Sadly not enough data is available in India about the returns – even company websites do not have the details. For e.g. I cannot know how my shares have fared if I bought Wipro in 1980 for […]
Seen some fantastic stories on the mutual fund industry. There is only one problem, you cannot drill down from the story…if you do that, you will quickly find ‘page not found’. See some typical terminology ‘There is rampant mis-selling in the mutual fund industry – and this should stop’. So out of sheer curiosity you […]
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 […]
Sorry this is not an article on ‘How to select a good broker?’ … One of the kids in training told me she can write well…and since I am not naming her I will also refrain from revealing her age, qualifications, etc. – anyway it makes no sense to you does it?By the time this […]
I am convinced that there are two ways to make money in the world (including India) and both are terrific ways. Of course I am too lazy to use both the methods, and hence this generous sharing of ideas. a. Create Confusology products: Learn from certain industries as to how to create a huge range […]