Since everybody has a budget wishlist, here is mine. I know this wish list will be read by about 7000 people over the next 2 days. Some people will say ‘how good’ some people will say ‘how stupid’. I know this will not reach Jet Lee. Not that it matters – the Baboo(n)s do what […]
Sungar: I have taken a home loan. 20 Lakh is the principal amount outstanding. 77 months pending terms/EMIs. Interest component I paid in 2016-17 is 2 Lakh. I will not get full benefit of income tax for interest component as rates have gone down. Please suggest what should I do? Is closing of home loan […]
When viewed as zcb (zero coupon bond with a 20 year duration) the share (including the mutual fund scheme with Growth option) looks like a bond that has a high credit quality, awesome liquidity, very low friction, a rising coupon and WE HAVE CHOSEN a very long time horizon. By saying that we will […]
This is a wrong headline, let me start by making a confession. I was doing ‘equity valuation’ – a sexy topic always for students and even budding fund managers. The purpose of doing this article was that I was suggesting to the class that valuation always starts with the bond valuation – and then you […]
I did a post on improving as an investor..and this is the follow up post. Read this before you go further Improving Investing skills part 1 of 2 As Mr. Buffett says ‘have an internal scorecard’ – be happy internally with what you are doing. Including investing. If your conviction is right, you can be […]
Investing too suffers from the same problems as everything else in this gen – too much. We have too many blogs, bloggers selling stuff, bloggers peddling influence, bloggers acting like soothsayers, magazines, channels, …etc. In this cacophony, I can assure you there is NOTHING helping you to improve as an investor. To be a better […]