At my age attending Investment Conferences is not of much use. Not that I do not have anything to learn, just that I do not have enough time left in life to be implement new learning. So learning is not of much use – except of course to write blogs. What did I learn from […]
I normally like to reach a conference an hour before the kick off. But thanks to amazingly bad routing by Uber, I reached half an hour before time! The first speaker was Anthony Serhan – and one key takeaway was that India was in the top (with USA) regarding legislation and disclosure. Must actually thank […]
Stock picking is a great profession and a very expensive hobby. However stock picking as a hobby will NEVER cease to attract men, women, boys and girls! They will just keep going at it, and it can hurt. Some important lessons: Stock picking is hard work. Real hard work. You need to read balance sheets […]
Continuing the gyaan series… Risk has to be managed BEFORE starting the journey, not AFTER the event happens Whether it is sex or investing – protection has to be taken before the event 🙂 Long term wealth creation has LONG PERIODS of wealth PRESERVATION, growth can wait Risk control is more GREED control in a […]
‘This time its different’ – is used so often, but rarely believed!! See the run up in banks? History may not repeat, but it does rhyme, and hey IT COULD REPEAT!! Saving, Speculating, Trading and Investing have different meanings in English language please! Risk and Return – manage risk and return follows. Chase returns, risk […]
What are the things that hurt a speculator, trader and an investor? Different things…but let us see… Leverage: Reckless leverage especially when you are dealing with client money or own friends, sibling, parents…money, Leverage can and does KILL. Using leverage is the equivalent of stepping off of a car and jumping onto an old 2 wheeler […]
Cheating! This title was just to get you here. The best investments in your life too have been made in school, college, home, ….you invested in education, health, relationships, NOT MONEY. When Azim Premji or Bill Gates look back they too must be realizing that their biggest investments or their best was in people, relationships, […]