There is a bunch of investors with whom I am friends with. Some of them are real rich and some of them are super rich. Let us say apart from a nice house with a value of about a Million US $, they would have a net-worth ranging from a Million US $ to 10 […]
I could have written a long article or just said…’I have said it so many times’…! There is no great secret to investing in volatile times. Imagine the situation of a person who is doing a Recurring Deposit in a bank…does he/she think what are the interest rates prevailing? No. He just does his RD. […]
Caveat Emptor. I do not understand interest rates. To be more precise, do not understand interest rates at all. Many people in the floating rate model of interest for housing may not know that they are already paying north of 14.5% p.a. interest on their loans. Ouch. It hurts. For new buyers of big houses […]
Mostly people look for capital gains. Not sure why …maybe it is the media effect or friends effect.. Sadly not enough data is available in India about the returns – even company websites do not have the details. For e.g. I cannot know how my shares have fared if I bought Wipro in 1980 for […]
I was so amused at a suggestion that Rs. 100 will be paid as a one time transaction cost for some select mutual fund agents, that I have no clue how to react. Yesterday 2 media companies wanted to know how it would work. I said I have no clue – will they pay Rs. […]
What is happening in the mutual fund industry? Well it is a little funny. Most of the fund houses are not getting any money in their equity schemes. A few schemes which are doing well are able to get some money – which is customer driven. A 15 month SIP in a good scheme would […]
There are many people who write in to say ‘I do not like mutual funds’. Fantastic. What is your choice? Out of about 4000 investors / traders whom I have met over the years not more than 50 are/were capable of beating the index regularly over long periods of time. The statistics is against you […]