There are many ways of getting rich. The quickest way is to sell something that you can buy for Re. 1 and sell it for Rs. 500. Then create a sales force which sells it for a 10% commission. The better the quality of sales force the greater will be your profits. The more such […]
A friend gave me lots of paper saying “My cousins husband has died, she is a nominee will you please transfer all the mutual funds to her name”. I said this is a breeze, will do it. Then started my ‘breeze’. DSP Mutual fund, Idfc, SBi mutual fund, Icici Prudential, J P MOrgan, Franklin Templeton,…his […]
Parroting ‘time spent in the market is better than timing the market’ is done by many journalists especially in the financial sector. However it does not giving the following advise: “It is your money. So if you are nervous about the market move into cash” When there are dark clouds, when you are feeling sad, […]
Guru Purnima or Poornima is a very important day for all of us…because we are all students all our life. In fact the people I know who do not grow old are people who keep finding new things to do…so keep learning! One amazing Guru story is attributed to Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Kanchi. One journalist […]
A man was searching for something in a dark room. He was crying, weeping, screaming and yelling. He was upset. He was making a mess of the things kept in the room. He broke some and tumbled on others. Yet, what he was searching for, he could not get. He was blaming his wife, children, […]
In such a volatile market the small investor needs protection. I can safely start a speech with this statement immaterial of the forum at which I am speaking. I will get a lot of applauses for this universally true statement. Let us now see what it means. One it is a Mother Hood statement and […]
Over the last many years after interacting with people I still cannot understand human behaviour. I can only say that I tried doing something! Over the past 3 days we did an event called the “India investment show”. Fund managers, analysts, company managements, come and make presentations – and the common man can walk in […]