Which is the best channel to watch if you are an investor? Cnbc? Ndtv Profit? Zee Business? … Well what about Animal Planet? O.k. Okay…I am wrong, but please read ahead especially if you are asking me … Will watching Animal Planet help me answer the following questions? Will inflation touch 17% six months from […]
There are many reasons to buy Gold and hold it. Of course tomorrow I can give you many reasons NOT to own gold also. One reason NOT to own gold is the recent phenomenon in its price. For example if you had invested in gold in 1980 (US $ 590) today it would be worth […]
A pyt in our office today asked a very innocent question. If inflation has gone up from 9% to 11% in a week, next week will it be 14%? Well the truth is I do not know. However I do know that if it rains 90mm in Mumbai, and it does rain like that for […]
This is the time that most retail investors lose patience, panic and hit the sell button. If you did that, you may not be wrong. But then you may not be right either. Remember the best money managers (no not a businessman like Warren Buffet) have done well by protecting the downside in their clients […]
Many experts in the market now have a view on the market. This is of course only to be expected is it not? It is like when you thrust a mike in front of a person, suddenly he becomes a wise man (person?). Mr. Ken Fisher who is himself a great fund manager and the […]
As is fashionable and necessary there is a discussion on a leading channel about how the market will behave. Of course to quote Taleb “Sensible sound bytes is an oxymoron”. So please listen to all the noise and come to your own conclusion. There is Shankar sharma who is predicting that the market might see […]
“Past performance is not an indicator of future performance” — the literature of every mutual fund you own, mentions something to this effect. In fact once, when I was lecturing at a mutual fund house, which was not performing well, one of the managers said, jocularly, “Can we say our past non-performance is not an indicator […]