Frankly this is not a ‘how to sell life insurance or mutual fund’ tutorial but just a note on how desperate the industry is to sell! ALL the life insurance companies – Aviva, Hdfc Standard Life, Icici Prudential, Tata AIG, Birla Sunlife, Max New York Life, Reliance, Kotak, – have called me at least 10 […]

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A friend gave me lots of paper saying “My cousins husband has died, she is a nominee will you please transfer all the mutual funds to her name”. I said this is a breeze, will do it. Then started my ‘breeze’. DSP Mutual fund, Idfc, SBi mutual fund, Icici Prudential, J P MOrgan, Franklin Templeton,…his […]

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One question on the top of everybody’s mind is of course “When will the markets recover?”. That is not just a difficult question to answer, but at best is a wild guess. However, the fun of prediction is to occasionally get it right! The market is a cruel barometer of corporate performance. In the preceding […]

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