This is arguably the most important financial decision in your life you will ever make! Not too long ago life was simple. You wanted a bank account, you went to a bank. If you wanted to buy shares, you went to a sub-broker (a broker was out of reach till about 15 years back). If […]
Hey frankly you do not have too much of a choice, do you? You would hate to hear this if your financial adviser (financial product salesman) were to tell you, but it is the truth. You have no choice in seeing where to invest for people looking to hedge against the risk of higher inflation. […]
this article has been written by a friend who is a little shy of writing so he writes nuggets and sends it to me for asking whether it is good. Since he does not use it, i am using it in my blog…. Leveraging Real Estate –to your benefit With the Equity markets touching new […]
What a true statement! Just remove real estate and replace it with “oil”, “gold” or “shares of Hdfc” – it does not matter. Asset prices fluctuate and is determined by demand and supply. Only thing is that this is a true statement – however the following conditions have to exist. 1. Uniformity of the asset […]
If you read what John Templeton says, you will believe that you need to create a diversified portfolio – a little of Japanese stocks, lots of American, some emerging markets, etc. in equity alone. Apart from this some debt – short term, long term, etc. Warren Buffet on the other hand says you should concentrate […]
The long awaited Mutual fund guidelines are here at last. However it is still very sketchy and full details are awaited and will come hopefully in the coming week. Even at this stage it is a welcome move and good first step for the end customer. Existing MFs can launch the REMF schemes, provided “they […]
Many people have asked me this question based on my advice not to borrow! Well I am not against borrowing at all! After all I hold shares in India’s biggest mortgage company, and some banks. So please go ahead and borrow, I have to get my dividends, do I not? However, on a serious note, […]