Let us do some crystal grazing…where will the index end on 31st March, 2010? Frankly I have no clue. Neither has anybody else. That is the truth. But let us have some fun. If the market were to close at the same level as March, 06 (11280) it would have to go up from 9708.50 […]
The trust that we all have on big organisations is dwindling if not reduced to zero. I have shares in 2 groups where I have some contacts with the promoters, top executives, mid level executives and some operational people. The reaction of each of these people to the slow down and the recovery process is […]
Thanks to the media most people know about SIP – Systematic Investment Planning. Of course the basis of SIP is rupee cost averaging (or dollar cost averaging as an international website would call it). Rupee cost averaging is a series of equal rupee investments made at regular intervals. It sounds simple to do so most […]
The cheer leaders are screaming once again – welcoming the 10,000 index. Whether it is television, print, or the internet – all of them have headlined the great reclaiming of the 10k index. The typical middle class guy is happy, but of course skeptical. The questions he is asking are the following: Will this market […]
As the equity markets have fallen 50% in this calendar year, 2009 markets have to be up! How appealing – and could it be wrong? You bet it can be. I am a little cramped for data – I have the March ending indices and just ran through it. It is not true at all […]
about 10 days back did a program on Utvi on behavioural finance…here is the transcript. http://www.utvi.com/personalfinance/financial-investment-india/15714/investing-sans-emotion.html# – is where the original is, for the others, here it is being reproduced! Investing sans emotion UTVi News Desk Published on Dec 18, 2008 MUMBAI: Leaving emotions out of your financial decisions is tough. After all, it’s about […]
Recession, slow down, pessimism about the Indian economy (of course because of the recession in the U.S. economy) are words that become common place in local lingo! Everybody and his aunty is now convinced that the Sensex will touch 5000 very soon, and the last place to be investing now is the equity markets. […]