There are a lot of things to learn form the Ramayana. I have done many posts in the past on such learning, here is one more: Look at Ravana, and see what are his assets: First of all by any standards the man was rich. Translate it to today’s terms – he could be an […]

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There are many stories that I have posted over the past 3 years. Alexander the Great…lessons The Yale Goal setting experiment The California story of the death of a scuba driver in a forest fire Arthur Ashe’s attitude Frankly I have not done enough research to see whether these stories are true or false. Neither […]

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I could not agree more with you SJ! There is no doubt that all clients may not listen to you, nor should you expect that. After all we listened only to people who met 2 criteria: – we were sure had the competence to give the advice (first parents, then teachers, then friends, then parents […]

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If all actions are reactions why are Americans hated? Well this is a finance site..so let me stick to what I know. Almost all literature we have read on equity markets is American. The great American investors have written all this literature in the past 50-100 years. This was the time when American companies (fairly […]

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Ravana had 10 faces – OK that is for the Kids. But Obama has a few faces – of course the fact that he is not handsome is a problem..but yes many faces. ONe is the BP face – where BP will pay salaries of employees of other rigs – which Obama has stopped. However […]

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Financial advisors – the media’s new villans have a view point too. A few friends and relatives ‘claim’ that they listen to my financial advise. One of them is my cousin who has now retired. Last week when I met him I realised that all his money was in $ denominated fixed deposits – and […]

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In case you are wondering what this contains, welcome! a Few days back I posted “Advisor’s fault, of course’. I got a few responses for that. So I thought an explanation is in place about an advisor’s role. First of all an advisor should give advise, only if it is sought. Do not convert all […]

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