“Subra you are very lucky that you got a chance to buy shares at low prices in the 1980s and 90s, but today it cannot work”. So said one famous TV anchor. That brings us to the question: “Is the buy and hold strategy no longer a good strategy?” is the strategy finished? Should you […]

Immaterial of whether you are in your 20′s or in your 50′s and you are looking at an investment you should know some of the basics of investing, so here it is. By and large at some stage you must have been approached by some investment adviser. He (increasingly she) must have offered you mutual […]

When markets are doing well, people put in MORE money, and INCREASE their expectation of what the market will do for them. In one day if the market goes up say 4% more people will call and ask…’I have ..X.should I invest that too’ . This is such a sitting duck question that the IFA […]

I buy shares and have held a big portion of my portfolio for more than 30 years now. Does it make me a trader, speculator or investor? Well in my younger age I would have gone to a Benjamin Graham’s book and looked for the definition of a trader vs. speculator. Today at this stage […]

This is a kind of many years of investing..so pardon my walk in the Garden kind of a directionless approach….here are some of the things: Rest and Stamina are terribly under rated – in investing and in running. To act for 4 days you need 361 days of preparation – in investing or in fighting […]