For all those who think that ‘Buy and Hold’ is an easy investment strategy, welcome to this post. This is one of the toughest strategjes to implement. If you think you can buy some shares that are currently being touted on Cnbc everyday and like Rip Van winkle wake up after 20 years, you are […]
The worst thing about writing a blog and trying to be original everyday is a quick realisation that you cannot! Frankly there are only 140 pages that you need to write in personal finance. Beyond that it is re writing. Like if you have read Bhagavatham, Ramayana and Mahabharatha ….you have really captured all the […]
Recently heard of 2 frauds in companies lending against gold…. One of the biggest risk in a single commodity lending is the risk of that asset falling so badly that it creates a lot of NPA in your books. Now the lovers of gold will argue till the cow comes home that this cannot happen. […]
End of the road for gold? No, surely not. However it is time to be cautious for sure. What are the risks in gold? Or is it that there are no risks at all, as some readers would like to believe? Well let us look at some of the risks: 1. It is not an […]
There is some advise that you keep getting from the media. You have heard it so many times that you know that it is correct (or the person who is giving, the journal, the channel, all of them believe)…but most people do not know how to use it. So I call it brilliant, but completely […]
On 9th April at 3.30 pm and on 10th April at 4.30pm Cnbc will telecast a program co-produced with NSE. This is a program on basic investing and I said the same simple things…start investing, compounding will work, gold is a commodity which has done well, real estate is a saving asset…and also answered some […]
There have been some emails and questions that people ask. Since many people ask me similar or same questions, I thought a post would be appropriate: 1. Why do you not do a review of the personal finance programs that appear on television? Answer: Am incompetent to do so. I have no clue what is […]