We are in the midst of an economic slowdown for sure. The west is down to growth rates of 0 and 1% per annum. Dropping oil prices will mean Sovereign Funds will have lesser monies to spend, and IT companies will also bring in lesser revenues. When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping! […]

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In every class on retirement planning one question which I always get a wrong answer is: “Will you buy big assets like house, car, etc. AFTER you retire?” It is met with an “obviously no. why do you even ask”. Well the obviously no is said and ‘why do you even ask is in the […]

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Is the bear market over? Are we in a bear market? These are questions that I have to face in every classroom that I enter….so here is my reply. Frankly, I do not know. But surely the index is a far cry from 21000 index that we had seen earlier this year. Is this the first […]

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Are we in a bear market? Well I do not know. But surely the index is a far cry from 21000 index that we had seen earlier this year. Is this the first time that we are going through a bear market in India? The answer is a mixed one. It is a no if […]

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It is customary for people to give sane advice- if you have a kid, the kid should have a PPF account. This advice makes very little sense. First of all most of the people I meet today invest far, far more in a year than the max possible amount of Rs. 70,000 in a PPF […]

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Uma Kannan is a good friend and an ex- blue blooded MNC banker. Here she is taking potshots at her own ilk. She says when she was with the bank, she was a “rogue deal seeker” but she felt good in calling herself a relationship manager, investment adviser, associate director…and various other nice names which HR faithfully found […]

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