This article appeared in MoneyControl….a few MONTHS ago… The market has gone nowhere in the past 4 years. When your financial planner / relationship manager / advisor told you that equities are for the long run he/she also said ‘long run’ means more than one year, correct? Well you invested when the index was 20000 […]
I hope Dr. Khan finds this article useful…Arjuna seek your answers here: Many people have been screaming about real estate as an investment. Well I have nothing against it, except that I do not understand it. Given limited brain power, I would rather not do it, instead of making a mess of the same 🙂 […]
“My husband does not lose money in equity markets – you know we doubled our money in the Maruti IPO’ vow I said…and as usually probed …. she said “Oh my husband only applies in an IPO, so he says we cannot lose money”…vow! There are 2 routes to the equity market. One is called […]
this appeared last week in MoneyControl…. Investment in turbulent times! The market has gone nowhere in the past 4 years. When your financial planner / relationship manager / advisor told you that equities are for the long run he/she also said ‘long run’ means more than one year, correct? Well you invested when the index […]
I had done the following post in the 1st week of June, 2006. Except for the numbers, the story is just as fine. It originally appeared in the Personal finance section of moneycontrol.com Okay, so the market fell 1,100 points on 22 May 2006, it fell 350 points on 31 May 2006 and another 327 […]
Too many blogs, too many columns, too many writers. Very little actionable ideas. Too many theories. Too much of cut paste. Let us look at one of them today. It is not the timing, but the time spent in the market that is important. Is it true? Yes of course. Is it true always and […]
Doing a series on how clients get ripped off! Each part is independent of the previous one. The first one was about Education. So continuing the education rip off. First we spoke of the ‘urban’ boy / girl who is on a self rip off mode. Take the case of a carpenter whose daughter is […]