Manish of Jagoinvestor.com sent me a mail of an article in Maharashtra Times (here is the link)…talking about how people should try to learn from websites… here is the link http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/8232806.cms

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hi looking for some real life experiences of people who have been cheated by a finance company, broker, distributor, unit linked plans, …anything in the process of compiling some case studies for bunch of people in the below the poverty line….. please send it to subramoney.rich@gmail.com thanks!

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This article is not really about Anna Hazare but a link that I have attached talks about him…. The USA and the small country of Singapore deal with the same problem in a very different manner. One has solved the problem, the other has not and will not. In Singapore if you are caught with […]

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Here is a rejoinder from a FP…he/she does not want to be named. Subra read your blog, it is good…really good and sums up the situation. Let us look at it from the planner’s point of view. The client does not respect the planner enough (your argument that respect has to be earned is well […]

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A friend had gone for an interview and she was asked… Interviewer: Why do you want to do this job? She: I wish to make a career here, learn and serve your customers to the best of my ability….. Interviewer: Bull. Complete bullshit. You need to pay the EMIs..so every morning you will start lying. […]

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Thanks to a book on retirement and many sundry articles on retirement planning….and people realizing (perhaps) my limited ability to talk on other topics….we do end up talking a lot about retirement. This is how they react…I have a little conveniently summarised them as follows: people in the 20s           – ‘what are you talking about?’ […]

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When I ask people what they expect from their investments, their first answer is ‘profits’. So I now have to be more accurate in my questioning… One of the questions is ‘What returns do you expect on a realistic basis from your investments?’ Obviously in nsc and ppf they know the answer…but when it comes […]

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