I am not sure whether Abuse of women by their partners is big or sexy enough for Aamir Khan to cover in Satyameva Jayete. I am seeing many cases of abuse, but in this blog I am planning to cover only one type of abuse. First of all there are 3 types of abuse that […]
Awesome news item saying that IRDA is cleaning up. Great. The way the financial services sector is structured, it should not be difficult to do it. There is only one downside. 38 mutual funds and 16 life insurance companies will close down. So the media being supported by them will shut down. No more sponsors, […]
Hi my definition of a youngster – for this post – is those people born say 1980 and later. This post was triggered by a comment on the annuities post. Let me enumerate: 1. Most of these people started their working lives say from 2002 onwards. So from 2002 to 2007 they were told by […]
If you were a big businessman would you create COMPETITION for yourself? Kind of a stupid question right? Let us see what the Government of India does! In the life insurance business it already OWNS India’s most valuable player viz LIC. However it creates SBI, Star Union Daichi, Canara Hsbc Insurance, Idbi Fortis, ….and I […]
1. Why do mutual fund distributors pay Rs.2500 to Amfi for a period of 3 years? What does Amfi do for them? Is it not a body representing the big mutual funds? Assuming that there are 100,000 active distributors (conservative because this includes bank employees too) we are talking of an amount of 2500 * […]
Every day I get one mail at least asking for the following: 1. Will you give personal advise on equity trading? 2. Is it a time to be buying gold? 3. Do you do PMS? Will you do it for me? 4. Why do you not suggest MF schemes to buy? 5. Why do […]
Here is a quick list on what I will not write on: -Taxation esp personal tax. There are more than enough people doing this. -Stock specific tips etc. I may do it once in a while, but not as a regular thing, and not something that is useful. I mean I will not do updates […]