Stocks and Shares What is a stock / share ? A share is a share in the share capital of the company. A shareholder is a part owner of the company, there fore has voting rights. He is entitled to a share of the profits of the company after all the other claim […]
Investing for the long term can always be COMBINED with Position trading. However it has no connection with day trading. Let me explain. Again let me take examples of companies that I know / deal with / and take examples that I remember. Most regular readers would know that I have EiD parry shares in […]
How many financial planners / bloggers / management gurus have told you that you should be Goal Oriented? A few thousand I presume? Well it was not very useful, correct? Let me give you an example from Running -as a sport. You could be running a Half Marathon in say 2.07 hours, and now you […]
Let us accept it, predicting is difficult especially if it is about the future. Having said that let me tell you that predicting RE returns and prices is possible in an advanced country where you have the following information available in a public forum: Prevailing rents, local taxes, local growth rates, infrastructure, number of new […]
So you want to make money in equities? or do you want to talk about many shares in the market? You must be clear about these above 2 questions. Recently I met somebody who wanted to invest about Rs 10-15L – I had just given him 3-4 names. He wanted more. He wanted about 8 […]
I am asked the following questions very often: -Will you advice me on Portfolio Management of Direct equities? -Will you be my broker? -Will you just tell us what you buy and sell? I have said no to all this – and do it every week!! Let me tell you why. Portfolio Management is an […]
People who read my blog regularly would have seen me contradict myself many times. That is the bane of fund management. Especially when you are managing somebody else’s money for a fee. This post is to explain one such contradiction. Most of my regular readers know that I do not like PSU companies. Bad/ poor […]