Comments on: 6 Important Rules for Retirees…and other Investors

By: abhishek

abhishek — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:05:32 +0000

loved the last line…

great post !

By: subra

subra — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:18:08 +0000

btw Vijayshankar who said ‘Safe bet-debt funds?’ – is this always true or only at the top end of the interest rate cycle?

Knowledge is the only protection

By: Vijayashankar

Vijayashankar — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:29:33 +0000

If someone gets a surplus, the investment horizon changes!

For eg., if you would get 2 lakhs in your hand – that may not be used for a year until next big ticket investment comes (unless you dont have big loans), how would you think you would invest?

Safe bet – debt funds?

I bet, the financial planner would suggest the Mutual funds route, to make some moolah!

By: shiva

shiva — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:22:00 +0000

LOL good one. No (3) – wish poor Madoff retiree investors had paid attention to this.

By: dr kishan

dr kishan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:04:34 +0000

Subra sir
I can think of only one thing about this article. The Punch line of Bloomberg TV: “BLUNT AND SHARP”.
Happy new year to you.
Since if the year is happy for you, you shall continue enlightening us and thus our year shall be happy too
kishan

By: anon

anon — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:28:55 +0000

that last line was fantastic.
An enriching and solid 2012 wished to you, Subrabhai.

By: krish

krish — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:09:53 +0000

One more advise is yielding to ego ticking. Most of the oil skin sales men use this as last resort. It could be praise, insult or hardly any effect syndrome. Some of them showcased as miniscule in the bigger portfolio.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:22:52 +0000

Nice Article Sir.
No free lunch as they say. And indeed the trust is hard to find.

By: SAM

SAM — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:15:43 +0000

Subra,

Happy 2012. Nice article. I wish I had read this in my late twenties or early thirties – I would have been richer – literally!