Invest in equities? The index is already up 23% on a calendar basis…why should I invest in equities NOW? Right? that is the first question that popped in your mind right now, did it not? Well let us look at the reasons why you should be buying: 1. I have always said this : YOU […]

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When interest rates go up, you know one thing for sure – it will come down also. Now inflation figures are likely to be a little lower (base effect), and there will be pressure on RBI to cut rates. In the informal market (ask the builders!) interest rates are still hovering around the 25%p.a. + […]

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I am asked this question a million times, and I have always given a sub optimal answer! Frankly I do not know whether a person needs a financial planner or not. A financial planner has so much of responsibility and work to do that he/she does not do it! In fact I do not know […]

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I get a lot of mails – on my blog, on facebook, and of course on subramoney.rich@gmail.com asking me to write on: – borrowing, loan consolidation, student loan consolidation, bankruptcy, …. -smart spending, – trading – in equities and debt, commodities, gold, silver, etc. – futures and options, hedging, – market timing etc. My response […]

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I get kinda irritated when the kids I teach ask me questions for which they can find answers on the web. What is a hedge fund and what is a mutual fund is a question that I have been asked a zillion times..so here is an attempt..I hope you like it..expect it in the next […]

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When you do not know something, there is risk. Many people who buy and sell regularly think they are traders. Well most of them are not. For being a trader you need trading skills, tremendous discipline, fantastic connectivity to the world markets – I know people who see the markets at 9pm, then 1am, then […]

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If all actions are reactions why are Americans hated? Well this is a finance site..so let me stick to what I know. Almost all literature we have read on equity markets is American. The great American investors have written all this literature in the past 50-100 years. This was the time when American companies (fairly […]

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