What is the connection between investing and visiting museums? Shreedhar Kanetkar explains

For Rs15, you can spend all day at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai, formerly known as the Prince of Wales Museum. That sum, I need hardly point out, is not nearly enough for a movie at the city’s theatres. Indeed, it may not even buy you a bottle of water at the swankier...

The March quarter performance of funds has not been too inspiring, finds Shailendra Lotlikar

Fund management is an art and fund managers are great artists; they perform well, but only when the weather is fine. How do they perform when the market is passing through a storm? Well, the first quarter of the current year has been somewhat stormy. Inflationary pressures, rising interest rates and...

Here are some clues on what to do in times of rising price

There is an official rate of inflation, which to my mind does not reflect the reality. Inflation can only be captured by a cost of living index that is truly representative and is framed on the basis of real people and their actual monthly budget. This can be done across a few cities, each city differing from the other in one or two...