Invest in equities? The index is already up 23% on a calendar basis…why should I invest in equities NOW? Right? that is the first question that popped in your mind right now, did it not? Well let us look at the reasons why you should be buying: 1. I have always said this : YOU […]
Adam Scott’s secret nine point formula is here and many people have said it deserves the Nobel prize. Ha simplicity is in. However all the people who want simplicity in THEORY actually LOVE to make their lives more COMPLEX. Given a choice between Idli and Aloo Parathan if you choose A.P, remember you are choosing […]
Hi I started my blog in Jan 2008 – so it is now 54 months old. Not some iconic passage of time! In the beginning there used to be 10-12 readers, now there are about 5k regularly and once in a while it peaks to 15000. This is normally because of some link by yahoo […]
If I did not know how the government works (no even now I do not, but some readers may think I know), I would have believed that the brokers association has done a good lobbying job. That does not seem to be the case. However the RGESS (Rajiv Gandhi Equity Saving Scheme) is likely […]
Greece is in financial trouble – and by now all of us know it. The trouble is a result of years of mismanaging the economy. All you have to do is read Michael Lewis’s article about this in Vanity Fair – and it had appeared long back. How different are other countries? Well not very […]
I have not been a great lover of the NPS for various reasons. One of the important reasons is that we do not have an index bond fund – so it is up to the Fund manager to decide what to pick. I hate that when I do not know the FM’s bond picking skills. […]
Thanks to the media everybody now knows about the NPS. At the end of training sessions people do ask…’Is the NPS suitable for me?”. Well that is a difficult question to answer. Let me tell you for whom NPS is not suitable at all! If you are young: If you are below the age of […]