This article appeared in MoneyControl…long ago..I thought it is worth a repeat.. Why do people postpone making their will? They think they will never die? Or they are sure that all their heirs know about their inner desires? Well read on… The current generation of clients whom I meet is inheriting nice big round amounts […]
For many people life is very clear. Parents decide what a kid should study, what they should do in life, whom should they marry, even when to retire. For some kids service is not an option. For some kids business is not an option. For those who are caught in between the decision to be […]
People outside the financial industry may not realise the ails of the industry! Let us look at the brokerage industry. Not long ago – circa 199o even until 1999, brokerage rates were falling but still was about 2% per transactions. Then the corporate sector war started – chasing the top line to come out with […]
If you read the mails that IFA associations get from their members – IFA galaxy’s Alagappan, or other independent financial advisors – it is quite disturbing. Just today itself there are complaints against 2 reputed fund houses – DSP and Hdfc for errors (and he goes on to say that it takes a long time […]
Bankers in Europe did not behave like this when they were paid moderate salaries. By the time they were in their 50s and could retire they still had to worry about their partnership in the bank to be sold. Indian, Japanese and some other East Asian bankers are not in the same set as the […]
http://www.subramoney.com/finance-for-non-finance-people-workshop/ Since the name of the game is transparency …all websites should be made to disclose how the costs add up. For example on mutual fund, banking and life insurance sites there should be a ‘disclosure’ of salaries. I should know that the MD got a salary of Rs. 2 crores + esop +….This will […]
2 companies I know and have dealt with are going through a crisis. For obvious reasons their names are held back. Both these organisations are very aggressively run and run by the founder himself. Both the founders are about 50 years of age and have created a good name for themselves. Most of the employee […]