In the last two days, I had mixed experiences while talking to a group of students during a market awareness campaign. (by SEBI through CGSI). While few students were interested to learn, most were a captive audience waiting to get…
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Teaching v/s Preaching
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Teaching Personal Finance
I am often disappointed at the vanity of teachers (spiritual teachers especially) who put themselves on a pedestal and start preaching instead of teaching. To my mind, you cannot teach a person who does not want to learn. And teachers…
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How to be a Smart Investor
I enjoyed speaking to students at Alibaug, Roha & Pali on the above topic and came away impressed with their questions. The events were cosponsored by CGSI (Consumer Guidance Society of India) and NSE (National Stock Exchange) and I was…
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How to set up your financial freedom?
As we celebrate another Independence Day, let’s take a look at setting up your financial freedom. The following article was published in Jetlite’s in house magazine Flylite. Freedom is being free of restraints and means having liberty from slavery, detention,…
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Providing Investment Advice Services
I received a mail from Namrata Mehta asking about my investment advice services. To be more specific, here’s an edited version of the mail: My husband and I work in the IT industry in bangalore and are looking at investing…
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Financial Inclusion & Financial Literacy: Intentions & Realities
The newspaper today has stories on financial inclusion and financial literacy. This post is about my thoughts on the noble intentions v/s the hard realities in the areas of financial inclusion and financial literacy. Mumbo Jumbo? Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee…
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How to design a Financial Literacy Program
Today I had an interesting discussion with a friend on designing content and effective training programs. To my mind, understanding the end user of your workshops and use that understanding to design content and the workshop on financial awareness is…
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