Let me start by putting in my disclaimers. I do not read too many other blogs, but once in a while a friend / reader / student sends me a forward and I read it. These are perhaps not very palatable, and is bluntly on your face kind of observations, but as usual, Kalli Valli […]
At some stage in our lives we fantasize how would life be if we had done IAS. I am sure all of us go through that at least once. I too have had those….thank God I did not do IAS. Anybody who has been in Mumbai for the past half a century, and dealt with […]
How should I invest in equities? IPO or secondary market? Direct equities or mutual funds? Mutual funds or PMS? SIP or lumpsum? Why not a ULIP? Frankly these are not questions that are easy to answer. The media does not make things easier. In fact I have not seen such a discussion on TV. No […]
I have a brilliant friend who has worked for many big and important media houses. He told me once – when he was heading a magazine – “I have made up my mind, please do not confuse me with the facts!”. This was when he was doing a story on mutual funds and unit linked […]
Risk is a matter of tremendous interest to me. Recently when I posted about Bharti Airtel – as a good buy at 290 somebody said ‘there are many multibaggers available’ . Sure – my multi-baggers search happens in the top 100 shares, and that is difficult. If I wanted to take MORE RISK why would […]
When you make some high sounding statement, have you been asked: ‘Do you think you are Tata or Birla?’ right? or ‘Do you think you are Ambani?’ If you are born / brought up in India, chances are you would have heard that, right? Well, I am not sure I want to be investing like […]