When it comes to investing in equities, it is nice to have a lot of rules. This means your full portfolio behaves to certain rules. Rules can be made for: – Stock picking, Stock review, Portfolio balancing, re-balancing, diversification, …. HOWEVER IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO KNOW why it was made in the first place. […]
http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/how-much-can-you-lose-in-equity-.html Well just too many people have no rules, limits, …and have no clue on how to invest in equities. These people can, should and do lose their shirt, pants and undergarments…..and deserve it. Completely. Let us say you are a well qualified, sensible, boy or girl and wish to invest in equities. Well if […]
Subramoney.com is a blog / website written by P V Subramanyam a past member of the stock exchange and has a reasonable working knowledge of the equity markets. He has been a trainer in banks, life insurance companies, mutual funds and brokerage houses, and claims he knows how many of these organisations work. He has […]
If you qualified in 2007..and started a SIP in 2008 in a long term equity fund, chances are your account is still in the red. Trying telling this kid ‘In the long run you will make money’. Even well qualified and older persons are finding it difficult to believe their ‘wealth creation strategy of doing […]
There is a provision to increase the expenses that the ‘aam aadmi’ will pay for the services of an asset management company…so welcome to the party. I mean the party that the AMCs will now start having. What are my objections to the new provisions? Frankly, I have no strong opinion on what the […]
Well there is a document on the Sebi website saying a lot of good things…however if you remove a simple TRANSPARENT and quantifiable charge like entry load (1% of the amount invested – i think it is clearly visible, right?) and replacing it with a RECURRING regular charge (including on EXISTING ASSETS I PRESUME) …IS […]
A friend called up to ask ‘Why do i have to pay a higher interest RATE for a second hand car than for a NEW car?’ How much is the difference? about 3-4% p.a. for 4 years…..so that you lose most of the advantage that you got in the price while buying. Wow. Why does […]