I did not know whether to say what every graduate should know or what every doctor, mba, ca, engineer should know. It is what my view is about what every kid coming into the job market should know: 1.The Gross salary that a company offers to pay you and the net salary that you get […]
There are always three sides to a divorce. Her story. His story. And more importantly the bitter truth. Have seen my more than fair share of divorces. Innocent guys completely cleaned up by scheming women, and the reverse. There is no gender to cheating or preparing for a divorce. The most important thing in a […]
All finance company shares are up and in the sky. With p/e ratios in the 30s and even in the 90s. Let us ask ourselves some basic questions. What will really happen if Tata, Birla, LnT, Shriram group, Religare, Indiainfoline and a couple of others do get a banking license? To start off, there will […]
When you do a business, the Laws of Economics apply to that also. You buy things add your overheads, add profit and sell the product. Or you sell a product and from that you deduct all your costs and what gets left is profits. In the retail business – especially the book business – about […]
Here is a completely different perspective on real estate costs!! For a typical middle class person – say earning Rs. 6 lakhs at age 43..obviously houses look damn expensive in Mumbai. However when you look at the salaries in the BFSI space – banks, mutual funds, life and gen insurance companies, brokerage….it is common […]
a hypothetical letter to my hypothetical client. Any similarity to something like this already written by somebody is a sheer accident. Hello Mr. Client, Sebi has vide its circular said I have to tell you all the earnings that I have from your account. I wish they had said that mutual fund houses should […]
No health deteriorates overnight. Sure we have heard of cancer, liver and kidney failure – but there are always some signals. Ignore them, and you are dead. Literally. Similarly are there some signals that you can pick up from a business that pre warn you about failure? Well here a few that I remember from […]