This is not restricted to US or India, it is a world wide phenomenon, but let us take a hypothetical case of a nice honest, hardworking lower – middle class American. He started life long ago and lived in the usual American style. Let us say he took a huge mortgage and bought a big […]
Make no mistakes. I do think that agents can play a great role in your life. A good agent for mutual funds, life insurance, real estate, travel, can really work wonders for your investment or travel. Many of them are very good people with excellent knowledge of the product, customer (you) needs, planning, etc. and […]
Nirmal Jain of Indiainfoline is a sensible businessman who needs to and will do business in India. If you seriously look at his business model, it is the funding operations which is really making money. In the financial services industry, broking, mutual funds, life insurance – NOTHING is profitable. One HFC told me – we […]
Here is a completely different perspective on real estate costs!! For a typical middle class person – say earning Rs. 6 lakhs at age 43..obviously houses look damn expensive in Mumbai. However when you look at the salaries in the BFSI space – banks, mutual funds, life and gen insurance companies, brokerage….it is common […]
I am not even getting into ‘Ulip vs Mutual funds’ – the experts know it, right? I am trying to see what are the mistakes they make when they buy Unit linked Insurance plans. This is not an exhaustive list, it is just on the basis of interactions that i have had with my readers […]
Here are some axioms, sayings, postulates, ….which people use (well almost indiscriminately) ..let us see if we really do understand what it means? 1. Mutual funds are professionally managed. 2. This company is professionally managed. 3. You cannot look into the rear-view mirror and drive. 4. To spread the risk, it makes sense to diversify […]
Not sure whether all the readers know / understand / appreciate in writing a book or a blog. So I thought I should share some thoughts at least: 1. No clue about the audience: I have NO clue at all about who reads my blog. Even if I know some names, I have no clue […]