In almost all trainings – whether it is a relationship managers training or a independent financial analyst’s training, one complaint comes through very loudly. It goes like this: “I have a client who invests 5 a month in a mutual fund regularly. However I am under tremendous pressure to sell him a unit linked plan […]
It is always in retrospect that you can have fun about trends. On one fine day – March 9, 2009 that the US markets had hit their low. Check your brokerage account for transactions around that time. The S&P was below 700, the Great Goldman Sachs was predicting a Dow less than 400, Cnbc was […]
Madhu Soman of Reuters writes well – and is a keen watcher of equity markets and real estate (especially in Wadala and Kerala!). He had written an article for REuters – on 16th October, 2008 – and it was subsequently carried in ET.Here are the first 2 paras where Shankar Sharma….read on! “The world of […]
At last the market went up by almost 500 points yesterday. Not bad for a market which has had a very rough year so far, with the Sensex with more than 50% loss for the year. This is literally the worst market crash since 1993. The bull run of 1992 was followed by a 46% fall in […]
I would have called this a million dollar question. However, thanks to this great meltdown, let me call it the Trillion dollar question. The Optimistic view: the world loves a bull market. The world loves a winner. The world loves to see the “good” man win – that is why we pay millions of rupees […]
There are many myths in investment management …let us break some of them: Buy low and sell high: Such a simple statement to make, and impossible to do in real life. Buy cheap and sell dear. People would like to think this is easy to do, but remember whether a share is high or low […]
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 […]