If you have a financial planner with a ‘product sale’ mentality – especially who has sold loan products also in the past, there is a good chance that he would suggest leverage. Leverage means borrowing. So read on… Financial planner: Borrowing sensibly is a good way to build wealth. Do a disciplined borrowing and you […]
If you had invested Rs. 10,000 in Wipro and kept all the shares with yourself, and spent all the dividends, your portfolio would be worth Rs. 300 crores (ok it does not matter whether it is 100, 200 or 300 crores) – it is just a gigantic figure! If you had invested in Reliance, Hdfc, […]
Partial booking of Profits is a MUST! – my broker’s favorite statement! I seek to invest in dividend yield stocks, believe in Buffet’s theory that “a share should be bought forever” and at the same time a proponent of booking partial profits on a winning position. Especially if a small-cap stock is up significantly, locking […]
this is the second part of the confessions of adviser’s / relationship managers some of the things that i wish to tell my client, but cannot! 1. When I asked you to sell (index 21000) you said ‘it will go to 25,000. Later on you say “You did not say it strongly enough”. Man, you […]
Most of us are not happy with the circumstances in which we find ourselves! “If I were just a little taller”, “If I were a little fatter’, “if I were just a …” Most common is “IF I WERE JUST A LITTLE THINNER”. As though dropping a kilo or 10 kilos will change our lives, […]
If you are old enough to remember what is LBO it means you were born in the 1950s or 60s! LBO is a short form of Leveraged By Out. Here a set of employees would get together and decide to buy out the shareholders. Then they would take the company public and make their $ […]
I do a lot of training for IFAs – here are somethings that they wish they could tell their clients: – If you can find all the answers on the net, please ask that website to get you a printout of your portfolio when you want, why should I call the fund house? – It […]