Not long ago I used to appear on TV at regular intervals. The channels that I used to appear regularly are ET TV, Bloomberg Utvi, and much less frequently on Cnbc and Cnbc Awaaz. So obviously PR agencies had seen me – and two of them approached me. One of them said ‘look at […]
Let us consider 2 investors A and B (I thought a long time before choosing A and B was wondering whether to use real names, then thought it does not matter!). They both have the same income, went to the same school, married similar girls, have similar risk tolerance levels…well they are almost twins. A […]
Generally investment managers emphasise a lot on financial or money management for all the people they meet. This is of course nice, their job depends on the assets under their management, so they should do this. Let us look at it from the ‘investor’ or ‘client’ ‘s point of view. When you are young (say […]
Wealth creation is a time consuming, easy to understand and very difficult to implement process. There are no cut fast rules on how to create wealth. Deepak Parekh, Uday Kotak, Rashesh Shah, Nirmal Jain, Raheja, Hiranandani, are all people who have created wealth by the greatest method. Run a good business, leverage with people […]
Reader: Sir is Hindalco a good company? Subramoney: Yes, of course. R: Good i bought it at Rs. 240. S: Hmm good. What is the price of the share now? R: Such a good company sir, I thought you would know the price! It is Rs. 174 now…(not sure about the date – a few […]
There is a big problem all distributors face. When the product becomes good and has a successful track record, the distribution margins reduce. So it is a catch 22 situation. You work hard, collect money for a fund house, they employ a good fund manager who delivers good results…so the scheme does well. Then […]
It is easy for me to say ‘you should not take personal loans, because I have not taken’. It is so foolish too say do not borrow. Most people are borrowing out of compulsion, not love for the bank!! Nobody borrows if they can live without that expense. However people do borrow, and when I […]