In such a volatile market the small investor needs protection. I can safely start a speech with this statement immaterial of the forum at which I am speaking. I will get a lot of applauses for this universally true statement. Let us now see what it means. One it is a Mother Hood statement and […]
I did an unscientific sms poll asking people the same question: ” 5 year view – If I have money to invest in the equity markets. Should I do a 12 month STP or a 24 month STP?”. The persons covered included 2 CIOs, 2 CEOs a few fund managers, 3-4 research people and a […]
We are in a mood of extreme pessimism. So now to talk about “irrational exuberance” may be a little out of place. By the way if you are new to the finance business, you may not have heard of Alan Greenspan or of “irrational exuberance”. Of course Alan can now be said to be of […]
If the market goes up 3 days in a row, i get emails / queries asking “Is this the end of a bear market”. UNfortunately I do not have any simple answers. First of all the market does not announce the starting of bull / bear markets. Pundits have chosen the names and almost always […]
There is a huge mafia out there pretending to create above market returns for all of us! They go by various names – fund manager, portfolio manager, equity analysts etc. If all of us get better than average returns, will the average itself not have gone up? So there are a few things you should […]
Is the bear market over? Are we in a bear market? These are questions that I have to face in every classroom that I enter….so here is my reply. Frankly, I do not know. But surely the index is a far cry from 21000 index that we had seen earlier this year. Is this the first […]
Are we in a bear market or in a bull market? Frankly nobody has been able to answer this question when the market is on! 3 months or 6 months later everybody will tell you that “May 2008 to Oct. 2008” we were in a bear market, however now we are in a bull market. […]