If you have seen all the news items about ULIPs, other life insurance products, etc. you might have suddenly thought that life insurance business is not profitable. Banish that thought. It is very profitable – why do you think all foreign players are trying to get in? So here is the reason: Cost effective distribution […]

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I have not been able to answer this question for myself – forget answering this question for others. There are 2 big company CEOs who constantly have their portfolios reviewed by me – the equity portion of it. One of them is in financial services. There are 3 fund managers who talk to me at […]

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Well he can do many things!! Some of the things that he can do are the following: 1. Identify your REAL goals and hurdles in reaching them. 2. Convert the goals into challenges and make sure you are willing to put in the resources to achieve them 3. Identify your personality – some people think […]

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Women need to know more about money than men do. However in real life this very important task is usually outsourced to the men in their lives – sometimes with tragic results. Many girls and women I know do not even accept the full responsibility for their financial lives. Immaterial of whether it is a […]

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Now imagine the stress this puts on the government (remember government pays indexed salaries and indexed pensions) finances. Low real returns has a very bad impact on the investments that people make – and the asset allocation has an impact on the credit market also. So the government has to tackle inflation – in a […]

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A few people I know keep comparing themselves with fund managers – and can arrive at fantastic conclusions. Here is a case in point. One female – nothing to do with equity markets in her professional life – was a sitting duck for many people selling financial products. To the credit of the salesmen she […]

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Doing an article for the New year is easy. Just go to the article you did in the previous year…and change the year. However is a good list of resolutions that you can make – it is really useful if you made it already, just reiterate it, and follow it! So here it goes 1. […]

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