One reader (SR) sent me some details like age etc. and asked me “Can I Retire, my age is 41 years”. Answers like ‘yes’ or ‘no’ is perhaps very easy to give. Completely irresponsible too. Let me explain. If I were a doctor and a 41 year old man came and said ‘this is my […]
I have referred to investment risk very many times in the past. This is a really scary risk in the Indian context NOW, as the inflation rates are sky rocketing. What exactly is Inflation risk? Inflation risk is the danger that an increase in price levels (normally for a sustained period of time) will […]
No, not one more post about eating and investing, just a cut n paste of an article by Deepa Gopalan Venkatraghvan …about Kerala Veg food… Had a chat with her about Thirunelveli Veg food…and its range. Most of these foods can be made healthy and nice…read on it is just a kind of enumeration of […]
About 12 years ago she came to me for investing her money. She is a well educated woman, has a smart daughter – and there is no man in her life. She is divorced, her father died about 7 years ago and she does not have a son. I am saying all this because when […]
There is not enough literature or education of how to handle your portfolio during your withdrawing phase. This is obvious – there is no money to be made withdrawing from your portfolio. There is a lot of money to be made while you accumulate it, but NIL when you are withdrawing it. Fair enough, right. […]
Is your investing similar to your eating? Let us see. If I were to call in a team of about 40 people into a class room and ask them a few questions…let us see what kind of answers we are likely to get. Then later on we will see why. 1. What kind of food […]
How many people have told you this: “Invest like Warren Buffett”. Excellent piece of advice, now how I wish it were possible. Let us get the facts right, WB is NOT the world’s greatest fund manager. He is not the world’s most charitable person. He is not….there is a whole list of what he is […]