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 >>Welcome to Madhu2.0
on 9 Feb, 2007 in personal, technology | 0 Comments
That aint a new aJAX based web service or a community site for head_scratchers_with_left_hand_middle_fingerers or something. Be warned.
My computer, Madhu as I call it got a major upgrade two days ago. The 6 year old marathon win2k, p3, 256mb, cd rw system is now a spanking new p4 3ghz, 512 mb ddr, 160 gb sata [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Supply Creates Demand
on 23 Nov, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
The things I love about Chennai are many, filter coffee, trees, relaxed pace of life, amazing food, culture to name a few. But one of the important reasons is Landmark Bookstores.
During my second week in Chennai, Ashwin, one of my b-school classmates introduced me to Landmark. We went to the store located in the basement [...]
Why arent IT jobs glorified in B-school Placements?
on 29 Oct, 2006 in b-school, technology, wonder why | 0 Comments
Rewind an year or two and you would have known me as a staunch supporter of all roles that are marketing and vying to become one sometime. Well, I believe that i am marketer even now. Just that i am selling services, technology and consulting instead of a pack of beedis, printers or pills. [...]
Read More >>Blue Dart Rocks!
on 5 Oct, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
It might be easy to suck as you would have seen from my comments about some of the service providers and such like. But it aint rocket science to rock as Blue Dart proved to me yesterday.
Situation:
1. I get a courier from Outlook Delhi. Blue Dart guys visit my appartment only to find me away.2. [...]
