Comments on: Lessons from Nike http://www.sudipbandyopadhyay.in/2009/02/18/lessons-from-nike/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:02:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: sanfu Jain http://www.sudipbandyopadhyay.in/2009/02/18/lessons-from-nike/#comment-146 sanfu Jain Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:08:45 +0000 http://www.sudipbandyopadhyay.in/?p=484#comment-146 Hi Sudip Thanks for reply It’s great to hear from industry stalwart that products and services which are appropriate and long-term value creator both for the customers as well as the shareholders are giving more importance than selling high margin products only which is main trend in the industry. It’s really nice that one of the largest player focus on customer care equally with shareholder. My question is for other side of table. Indian investors are mainly focus on getting maximum return with minimum risk and all advisors also suggest same. When can we see Indian investors focusing more on companies which follow highly ethical standard and invest in products like Mutual fund or Insurance which follow style of ethical investing (At present there is no financial product which focus on investing in companies taking care of environments, good to employees, follow strict corporate governance etc, many European or American Pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies strictly follow this kind of strategy and getting good returns). It would be great if you can guide future trend of Indian investor or Is Indian financial market at nascent stage, these strategies are fad and will not work nearly in India. Thanks Hi Sudip
Thanks for reply
It’s great to hear from industry stalwart that products and services which are appropriate and long-term value creator both for the customers as well as the shareholders are giving more importance than selling high margin products only which is main trend in the industry. It’s really nice that one of the largest player focus on customer care equally with shareholder. My question is for other side of table. Indian investors are mainly focus on getting maximum return with minimum risk and all advisors also suggest same. When can we see Indian investors focusing more on companies which follow highly ethical standard and invest in products like Mutual fund or Insurance which follow style of ethical investing (At present there is no financial product which focus on investing in companies taking care of environments, good to employees, follow strict corporate governance etc, many European or American Pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies strictly follow this kind of strategy and getting good returns). It would be great if you can guide future trend of Indian investor or Is Indian financial market at nascent stage, these strategies are fad and will not work nearly in India. Thanks

]]> By: Sudip http://www.sudipbandyopadhyay.in/2009/02/18/lessons-from-nike/#comment-141 Sudip Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:19:27 +0000 http://www.sudipbandyopadhyay.in/?p=484#comment-141 Thank you for your kind words. To my mind, more than Mutual Funds , the Life Insurance Industry needs to transform itself. Products and Services which are appropriate and long-term value creator both for the customers as well as the shareholders of these companies, needs to be developed and marketed. Current focus on only building top line by selling inappropriate products should change at the earliest. Thank you for your kind words.

To my mind, more than Mutual Funds , the Life Insurance Industry needs to transform itself. Products and Services which are appropriate and long-term value creator both for the customers as well as the shareholders of these companies, needs to be developed and marketed. Current focus on only building top line by selling inappropriate products should change at the earliest.

]]> By: Sanfu http://www.sudipbandyopadhyay.in/2009/02/18/lessons-from-nike/#comment-140 Sanfu Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:29:08 +0000 http://www.sudipbandyopadhyay.in/?p=484#comment-140 Hi Sudip Your article is absolutely true. Protest against Nike helps them to invest money in the developing countries production units which slightly increase the cost but improved the condition of labour tremendously. Increase in cost price was balaced by increase in brand equity of Nike. When do u expect developing countries like India will be ready for finacial products like mutual funds whose aim would be base ond ethical investment not only on returns. Hi Sudip
Your article is absolutely true. Protest against Nike helps them to invest money in the developing countries production units which slightly increase the cost but improved the condition of labour tremendously. Increase in cost price was balaced by increase in brand equity of Nike. When do u expect developing countries like India will be ready for finacial products like mutual funds whose aim would be base ond ethical investment not only on returns.

]]> By: kamlesh bhatia http://www.sudipbandyopadhyay.in/2009/02/18/lessons-from-nike/#comment-138 kamlesh bhatia Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:54:35 +0000 http://www.sudipbandyopadhyay.in/?p=484#comment-138 Sudip what you said is very true..in the rush to make many people forgot necessity of hard work.. fiancaial markets had become sort of gambling.. crazy valuations (P/E) were assigned to the companies without giving thoght to any fundamentals and it was going only one way i.e up for 5 years.. the law of averages was bound to catch up and hence now we have no reason to complain because it was our greed that to chase unrealistic returns year after year for 5 years.. in doing so the prices of other assets also went over the roof and this became a visvisos circle.. thankfully the cooling has now started.. asset prices (except gold) are moving to a realistic levels and now is the time to invest in good sound indian bluechips because if we were ready to put our money at 21K index level then why not today.. afterall we do not depend only on expoorts (except for IT and to some extnet textiles).. we have a huge domestic demand and there is no reason why our manufacturing sector will not do well as also this is a election year and govt will spend huge amount of money on infra which will have a ripple effect on other sectors of our economy..hoep Q1 of next fy is better Sudip what you said is very true..in the rush to make many people forgot necessity of hard work.. fiancaial markets had become sort of gambling.. crazy valuations (P/E) were assigned to the companies without giving thoght to any fundamentals and it was going only one way i.e up for 5 years.. the law of averages was bound to catch up and hence now we have no reason to complain because it was our greed that to chase unrealistic returns year after year for 5 years.. in doing so the prices of other assets also went over the roof and this became a visvisos circle.. thankfully the cooling has now started.. asset prices (except gold) are moving to a realistic levels and now is the time to invest in good sound indian bluechips because if we were ready to put our money at 21K index level then why not today.. afterall we do not depend only on expoorts (except for IT and to some extnet textiles).. we have a huge domestic demand and there is no reason why our manufacturing sector will not do well as also this is a election year and govt will spend huge amount of money on infra which will have a ripple effect on other sectors of our economy..hoep Q1 of next fy is better

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