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Will you pay for ULIP or Investment Advice?
I’m just working through my inbox and at least 200 emails are still pending, with people asking me what I suggest they do about their policies. The requests ...
Economy
Inflation Still High – 16.08% on food, 18% Fuel
India’s inflation – just primary articles – is at 16.08%. A major concern now is how this data is being corrected. Usually after two weeks a preliminary ...
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Value Research: Calculation Error?
Over email, Ravikiran Rao pointed out to an error in Value Research’s article by Dhirendra Kumar which mentions: Consider a ten year investment that is ...
General
India Outperforms along with Korea
I just did a relative analysis of world indices for the last three months. The top two right now are India followed by Korea which are close to the same levels ...
Opinion
On Yahoo: Inflated Bandhs
My latest at Yahoo is on Bandhs and Inflation. While returning on Sunday from a break in the Himachal mountains, the taxi driver told me he was afraid of the ...
Opinion
ULIP Exits And The Sunk Cost Fallacy
A column I’d missed out last year on ULIP Exits and the Sunk Cost Fallacy: My last column, ‘The ULIP War’, has yielded a number of responses ...
General
Holiday Break
I’m taking a week off in the mountains and with flaky internet access, won’t be able to post much. Markets seem to be getting slowly interesting, ...
General
US Mortgage Rates Sink to Lowest on Record
It seems mortgage rates in the US have fallen to the lowest on record, at 4.69 percent: Mortgage company Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate for ...
Opinion
On Yahoo: The ULIP War
My latest at Yahoo!: The ULIP war on the topic of the week, ULIPs. The turf war between the Insurance Regulator (IRDA) and the Securities Regulator (SEBI) is ...
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