Are fund managers poor marketers?
on 20 Feb, 2007 in media, personal finance, wonder why | 0 Comments
Come Ferbruary, every fund house worth its NAV comes up with a hoard of ELSS / Tax planning mutual fund offerings and promotions. These days you open any (business) magazine and you see atleast a dozen ads on how MFs can save you Rs. 33,360* or something on taxes. First up the claim that they [...]
Read More >>Find out whether you need a house or not in 60 seconds
on 12 Feb, 2007 in Excel Tips, personal finance | 0 Comments
Most of my classmates and friends have started purchasing houses. This coupled with the fact that I am in coveted DINK (double income no kids) group now have prompted me to do some preliminary research on buying a house. In my quest few things became obvious,
Any house worth its tiles costs more than a million [...]
Read More >>PHD’s Regular Blah #4
on 19 Dec, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Saturday went really busy. 2 of us went to Lotte World, a fantasy world with lots of rides and magic stuff. We stayed there from afternoon 1 to night 10. Then we went to a mart to buy some odd stuff. By the time we return to hotel it was 12.
Its fun to be out [...]
Dongdaemun
on 10 Dec, 2006 in Seoul | 0 Comments
In a hurry to make most of the weekend, 4 of us rushed to the Chungmuro metro station, bought tickets for Yongsan[view Yongsan photos] and rushed to line number 4. The train came in a moment and we boarded it immediately. After a couple of stations Rhushi shouted, “Abe, we took the wrong direction. We [...]
Read More >>Creating New MFs - the SBI way
on 7 Dec, 2006 in personal finance | 0 Comments
Mutual fund companies often develop this compulsive urge to launch a new product, but sadly mutual funds are one of the boring financial services and all most all of them do one of the following four:
Retain your capital and provide liquidity
Give returns at risk free rate by investing in longterm governament bonds etc. [...]
Innocent Websites, pissed off clocks and such like …
Monday mornings are not just difficult, but often they are funny too.
So to begin with now there is a website for innocent. Even before you head there scratching your head, let me warn you: its the website of Malayalam actor Innocent. Now
Some enterprising soul in Anand, Gujarat has made a clock that can [...]
PHD’s regular blah # 2
on 17 Nov, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
I got engaged to my college sweetheart, my love of life, Jo last saturday, it was one of the most beautiful and simplest functions that I have been to. I am so happy. Marraige is on Jan 21 in Vizag. Will post a detailed marriage invite later.
Its still raining in chennai, and like mad [...]
