If you are in the finance business, today you have to talk about two very important things: Financial Literacy and Financial Inclusion. What you do is not so important! I have heard of an organisation where a person in a grievance cell also has targets! When the customer comes complaining, REPLACE the product, and make […]
What is being Rich and what is being Wealthy? This is a topic that I have spoken about too many times in the past….One of the steps required is to create different and various sources of income. For a beginner who is starting on a first or second job how is he/she expected to create […]
As soon as the horse bolts it becomes necessary to bolt….so we now will talk about REGULATING the wealth management industry: Let us see what can be done: – all wealth management contracts should be 43 pages and have 86 signatures. – if it includes Mutual funds, the trail commission that the wealth manager can […]
Many good fund managers are beating the Sensex and the Nifty by a long margin. I am also seeing many individuals (yes the kind of people I meet is skewed) beating the index, and many times by a big margin. This is also because when I see my own portfolio (or my families portfolio) there […]
If your financial planner told you “The longer your time horizon, the more stocks you should own”. You need to tell him “Time isn’t everything. You must also consider I am a broker in the life insurance business!” It’s one of the basic rules of thumb: The more years you have to recoup losses, the […]
Copying is very difficult especially if you want to be the first! How can you copy from the second best and be first? So that makes copying difficult. However you could take parts of many and look original…then you need not defend your copying! Warren Buffet made most of his money by staying and investing […]
Many people have asked me – do you trade? and the answer has always been – ‘kind of’. I am convinced that you can build a kind of permanent portfolio – but you need to be thick skinned, and deaf to all the noise around you. I have been told by many well wishers that […]