I have been saved many times in the past. It is clearly Lord Almighty who saved me…I just got lucky I guess. Let me enumerate… In 1992 we had to buy an office and decided to fund it by selling some shares….phew…or we would have been blown to bits, would have lost money on most […]

A very funny problem has cropped up. One reader writes in saying “I am gifting my daughter a car..and she says she wants a better car” what should I do? Tough dilemma. The person asking this question is a friend. Let me describe him. He is a Vee Pee in a big engineering company, aged […]

Many PR agencies ask me if I would tweet about their product or whether I would write a post about their product. Frankly I have no clue how this helps them. In a digital age when likes can be bought, and people believe that reading can make them skilled, I wonder how the words digital […]

I was asked this question many times in 2008. I said ‘I do not know, but it could take 10 years for the market to come to the same level as 2007’. I was wrong of course, but this was based on my previous experience – when it took a very long time for the […]

My best answer to both the questions is the same: The market will go up or go down from here, I do not know. There are 3 answers that you can get at this stage: “The market was too high anyway, look at the PE ratio, so the market has gone down. This is the […]

Many IFAs have got in touch with me recently…a little worried about what is happening in the market. Here is some generic gyaan on what they can do: Explain to clients that NOBODY, nobody, knows what is happening in the market Nobody can say that a market went down by 332 points out of which […]

I did not want to say ‘why are share prices falling’. Like I said ‘falling’ or ‘rising’ are words that I do not like to use. Here is an awesome scholarly article..i am not sure how many of my readers are interested in a scholarly article on share price movement.. Be warned it is a […]