Reader has asked a very valid question: “Subra all this is fine..but what is the use of all this gyan? When I ask you whether you will hold my hand and help me plan my finances FOR A FEE…you always say no. I do not like some other websites which does it..- i feel it […]
Let us accept some facts early on: There are more bankruptcies than billionaires… We do not have any data about Indian investors, but MORE than agree with Sucheta Dalal and Moneylife that the number of investors have dwindled. This is terrible for the economy, but clearly a regulatory failure. Since we do not know by […]
This is a result of being in the 4th decade of my investing life. Not all the lessons were personally learnt – some where learnt from the reading, teaching, talking, dreaming, writing, commenting about investing. So if you see some points from other authors, writers, commentators do not feel outraged. We both may have […]
Assuming a diary is a place where you will write down your darkest, best, …..an investment diary is a must. These 5 things MUST, MUST, MUST go into a diary if you really want to improve as a stock picker: a) log all ideas – history tells you which were good and which bad. A […]
Real estate prices are rarely rational! It is just that there is not enough information available in a well organized manner, and people are resistant to change. Take a city like Mumbai. It is impossible to set up a barber shop, an inexpensive eatery (I mean selling dosa at Rs. 50), a general practice or […]
“If you spent 13 minutes last year guessing about the economy and the indicators, you wasted 10 minutes”. I am not sure about whether I got the wordings correct, but Peter Lynch said something to this effect. I am myself not a big believer in asset allocation strategies based on the state of the economy […]