When you go to a doctor you get a feeling that you have gone to a person who is completely ‘loyal’ to one school of thought. So you have a allopathy slave, a homeopathy slave, a unani slave…… NO DOCTOR has the patient’s good at heart? Not sure if it is too sweeping, but why […]
Too many people in the media are obsessed about fund management costs. This is not a bad thing – after all this is the ONLY thing to which we retail investors have access, right. Fund managers on the other hand (ok the 3-4 fund managers who I have spoken with and who have over the […]
Hindu Business Line carried an article by Aarti by the same title. She starts by saying it is blasphemous to even ask this question. I agree that it is the way the media has ‘asked’ people to think. However, I belong to an old school of thought. It is easy to say ‘costs are everything’. […]
Here is a link to the thoughts of Warren Buffet… I more than agree with most of the article…also because I believe it, you could call it affirmative bias. I know people who have made fantastic returns in property trading, gold trading etc. However I do not believe that real estate, bonds, and gold can […]
As far as my view on the economy is concerned, frankly it does not matter. Here I am with Peter Lynch – if I spend 10 minutes on finding out how the economy is doing, I think I have wasted 7 minutes at least. However there is too much media, student, colleagues, friends pressure to […]
Does it sound funny? Well it is not – it is a Gandhian concept (for the more ignorant people, I mean Mahatma Gandhi, no relationship to Feroze Gandhy who changed his spelling to Gandhi). Mahatma Gandhi too would have had many small problems – stomach ache, headache, injuries – but he choose to concentrate on […]
Recently 2 Nris asked me this often asked question. I remember Srikant doing a story on Moneycontrol sometime back regarding the same. I come from a school of thought that ‘whatever happens in my life is because of me’. However this was before I saw some managers handling some gullible people’s portfolios. Both these are […]