What do you do if people disagree with you? Get angry, resign to fate, fight, ignore them…well look up the Cognitive disonance….but first read on.. There are some deep beliefs that you cannot question. Let us say the scientists in the world believed that the world is flat. It means many years of research including […]
One important part of portfolio management is to have self confidence. What I mean is if you have a good company in your portfolio, do not think it is a bad share :). ‘Ghar ki murgi daal barabar’ becomes a reality even while you are handling a portfolio. If say I have 1000 shares of […]
Of course the BFSI space is booming and there are all types of stories about it. However the mutual fund industry, the life insurance industry and the brokerage industry are not as profitable as the pundits tell us. The profitability of the banking business is visible to all. Even the Psu banks make money – […]
I got a few calls in the morning (late last evening perhaps) saying ‘OMG I missed the SBI bonds issue…now I will get a much smaller allotment than what I had thought’. Let me correct you Ma’am. You will NOT GET ANYTHING if you applied on Tuesday, because the issue was fully subscribed on Monday […]
 If you are a shareholder who started an asset management company and /or a life insurance company hoping to make money, God bless you! For those of us who are shareholders with the Birla, Hdfc, Tata groups – remember we are all funding the insurance and mutual fund businesses indirectly. Kotak bank, Hdfc ltd, […]
Overconfidence while investing is one big problem while people invest. Even worse is a half baked understanding of what the masters have said. Let us take just 2 examples…from the big man – Warren Buffet himself. 1. Diversification is for mediocre people: If you do not know what you are doing, you need to diversify. […]
There are some deep beliefs that you cannot question. Let us say the scientists in the world believed that the world is flat. It means many years of research including greats like Aristotle who had not said anything to the contrary. So if I were a scientist in that era and a few guys like […]