There is mis-selling in mutual funds. True or False? Frankly I do not know what is mis-selling so I cannot comment. This is what a rational person is supposed to say. But our powerful mandarins say yes, yes…we will legislate against it. Will the SEBI please stand up and come out with a white paper […]

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The Sundaram Mutual ad is giving reasons – ‘Why investors love our dividend policy’….3. They say to pay dividends, funds must BOOK profits. This is true, but how does the fund house know whether I need the cash today or after 5 months? Do they know that I am a 23 year old hoping to […]

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“Past performance is not an indicator of future performance” — the literature of every mutual fund you own, mentions something to this effect. In fact once, when I was lecturing at a mutual fund house, which was not performing well, one of the managers said, jocularly, “Can we say our past non-performance is not an […]

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I have been in the markets for a real long time. As a friend says when we entered the market flying was considered dangerous and sex was considered safe! I started learning about something called PRICE-DIVIDEND RATIO. I was told dividends are the only thing that a small investor knows for real, so he should […]

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What is being Rich and what is being Wealthy? This is a topic that I have spoken about too many times in the past….One of the steps required is to create different and various sources of income. For a beginner who is starting on a first or second job how is he/she expected to create […]

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One good thing about being in the Equities business for long is you meet only those people who have created wealth for themselves! So you do meet people who have personal net-worth ranging from Rs. 2-3 crores to people who are in the Rs. 1000 crore + net-worth. Many of them are now in their […]

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Many people have been asking me this question…’You say all this…but where do you invest?’. Well very clearly I invest only in equities. Other than a small amount in debt (which should be say next 4-5 years household expenses) + some money in PPF and planning to open a Senior Citizen Yojana a/c for my […]

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