This is a question that is always difficult to answer. The best thing to do is to fully deflect the question! However with a low IQ it is possible to attempt an answer to this! Even though I do belong to the Peter Lynch gang of saying ‘If you have spent 10 minutes thinking or […]
Frankly I do not have an answer…but let us see what can happen. Lots of people who have made money on the up ride from 9k to 20k whom I know are happy to sit on cash earning 10 to 10.5% p.a. interest. See the IDBI bank ad – it is screaming a rack rate […]
“Past performance is not an indicator of future performance” — the literature of every mutual fund you own, mentions something to this effect. In fact once, when I was lecturing at a mutual fund house, which was not performing well, one of the managers said, jocularly, “Can we say our past non-performance is not an […]
‘Get a good degree, get a job in a government organisation, the government itself or in a psu bank.’ Universally brilliant advise to all girls from mothers. Alas, no longer accurate or correct. Thanks to my friends, colleagues, family…I do not know too many people in the government, psus, etc. I know only 4-5 with […]
This is a fantastic headline to catch people’s attention, that is all. I have no clue whether the market will go up, go down, remain sideways,….NO CLUE at all. I mean it, really. I was in a bank class when the index had reached 10,000 (year 2008 I think?). One of the kids asked me […]
I did my first transaction in equities in the year 1979. I was in 12th standard, Clive Loyd had not yet won the ‘Prudential Cup’ ….and my parents did not think that a ‘kid’ should not deal in shares…I think my first transaction was 50 shares of Ind Suzuki (later on called TVS Suzuki). Do […]
A lot of the money that I handle directly (family only) and some people who claim to listen to me (I have no clue where they buy, whether they buy, or whether they have sold)…are bleeding because of these shares: Allied Digital (-67%), Arvind Products (-54%), Brand House (-34%), Crest Animation (-49%), Jupiter Bio (-39%), […]