One leading mutual fund is doing a series on Myth busting about mutual funds. It is interesting to say the least. Let us look at each one of them: Mutual funds are very risky. Let me reiterate, yes it is very risky. Imagine the head of Research of a big pharma company wanting to invest […]
An early start in investing is really helpful. Not because of the power of compounding alone, it is also that you can implement the learning. I know, I know you will jump up and say ‘the past performance is not an indicator of future performance’. I agree, however having been in this ‘business’ since the […]
Let me enumerate some of my investing mistakes…or let me tell you how I have made amazingly stupid mistakes… Mistakes of commission: buying the wrong stock for the wrong reasons. I knew the promoters of Silverline, Patheja Forging, Krishna Filaments, Shaan Interwell, Indiana Dairy. All turned out to be shit. Luckily for me not much […]
Nice to see many many many articles, blogs, even legislation which are meant to ‘help’ the uninformed, poor investor. Let us look at the assumption of what these intellectuals and bureaucrats think about the behavior of the end investor. The dark portions are the MYTHS…the reality is different. 1. The investor is rational: Fair assumption […]
It saddens me to see people trying to do their own financial planning while lacking the discipline / interest in understanding how it is to be done! If you are not diligent, thorough, clinical, and unbiased in your approach it is really difficult to build a nice portfolio! Let us take a look at the […]
There is one thing which if you do, you can dramatically change your life. Do you know what is this one change? Start looking at what YOU did to get that result. We spend too much time blaming our parents, siblings, friends, bosses, lenders, shareholders for what goes wrong in our lives. I know just […]
Those who have studied law (even Second Year Bcom had this case) – LLB, CA, Company secretary, CWA – would be familiar with this company. This is a very famous company (it is still in existence) and was formed to help the cyclists. Fairly obvious its main aim was to protect the cyclists, lobby for […]