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Investments and Team Sports
I posted about Investing and sports and asked you if we must take investing as a game! Did you get the impression that we should take it easy? No, even sports is serious business! We have the...
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Opinion versus Facts
I observed a discussion where two guys were debating aloud, one with his facts and the other with his opinion. The guy with the facts remarked that, “What you say is your opinion, not a fact”. The...
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The dangers of half baked knowledge
Opinion and facts often blend into each other. While writing, article the author has his/her own interpretations of the facts. We need to be aware of the limitations of the knowledge being shared by...
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To Change or Not to Change
If you are looking for help, everybody has some advice for you. Do this or don’t do that. It’s essentially about changing something. The other way to live your life is to accept yourself. Or forgive...
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Slides of the Smart Investor Workshop
In the workshops, addressed to students of IIT Patna, NIT Patna, NIT Jamshedpur, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, St Xaviers College Ranchi, Jamshedpur Womens College, etc, the following slides were used to tell...
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Industry Reviews on Housing & Infrastructure
Here’s some reviews of the real estate, infrastructure and housing finance industry posted on our revamped information portal on personal finance. Your feedback is always welcome. Real Estate &...
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DIY Financial Planner at Rupeemanager
A few days back, Pattu shared my DIY Planner on Facebook with the comment : Want to make your own financial plan? Use the elegant online tool designed by Ranjan Varma http://rupeemanager.com/planner/#...
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Why be wary of personal finance experts
Dear Reader, Congratulations, you have started making informed choices about your personal finance journey by reading up on blogs/websites/media. Now, that’s something to be ecstatic about. But it’s...
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PPFAS Long term Value Fund
PPFAS is launching a mutual fund scheme titled ’PPFAS Long Term Value Fund’ shortly. It will be a diversified equity scheme. While 65% of the corpus will be invested in Indian equities, it has the...
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Business Sutra: Connecting Beliefs to Behavior and Business
“Business Sutra: A very Indian approach to Management” is a book by Devdutt Pattanaik that I have fallen in love while reading it again and again. I was already a big fan of Devdutt’s blog and I jumped...
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What I learnt from LK Advani?
I am a clueless political spectator. But there is something that I learnt from the headlines of the past few days and I want to share that with you. Mr Advani in his resignation letter cited the...
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The Future of Money
Gaurav Mishra, Founder & CEO, FutureCrafting has posted a report on the future of money which argues that the social and mobile technologies are changing the way people earn, manage and spend their...
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Financial Innovations are NOT Consumer Friendly
When the Insurance industry was opened up around 2000-01, there was optimism that the new players would bring in more options, better pricing and better service for the consumers. But in the name of...
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Rajan, Chidambaram aur Woh
When I am talking to students about concepts like monetary policy, fiscal policy and global economic scenarios, I have to make it lively enough so that the students don’t doze off. Unfortunately, I...
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Complain about Negativity Around? It could be within You
The very people who complain about negativity around could be the most negative people themselves. Do you agree? There are two ways of spotting negative people. They are always complaining and they...
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Snapshot Economic Data on September 22, 2013
These datas change from time to time. Recording a snapshot data on Equinox day, so that we may take a relook what happened to these data over time. Recommended postsSeptember 20, 2013 -- Rajan,...
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Personal Finance Resources: Weekly Digest
Here are some updates on Personal Finance Resources website: Tax Provisions for Bonds/NCDs listed on Stock Exchanges Insurance Policy Returns: Fact & Fiction US Bond Market and impact on India Tips...
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The Value of Paid Advice: Stock Investment Blog
The post is part of the category “Cost of free advice” in order to show you the contrast! Rohit Chauhan has a paid website,where he publishes a model portfolio, which substantially mimics his own...
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Outlook on the Indian Economy: A Report
The MBA Finance guys that I spoke to today had a number of questions on the economy and I told them about reading up on CRISIL’s reports on the economy. The CRISIL’s report, The State of the Nation is...
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Religion and Morality
Chew on this! Check out this FB page too Recommended postsMarch 25, 2013 -- Opinion versus Facts (1)October 29, 2012 -- The Bankster by Ravi Subramanian (1)March 27, 2013 -- To Change or Not to Change...
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