There is always risk in the markets – Equity or Debt or Job. Funnily it is risk which gives us the opportunity to buy. We just saw the quarterly results of Indigo. Obviously it was not good and the share has gone down from  1800 to about 1500. Maybe it will go down even further. […]

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First of all I could have called this “eternal principles of investing”. Actually it is. FOR ME. You have to create your own principles and see what works for you. I had no goals of investing when I started investing, but today I broadly know how much I need and how much I have for […]

One reader has asked Pattu about a retirement crisis and Pattu has replied to that. Here is my take. Retirement crisis in India is not visible. It is very well hidden. The parents have an inflated home and the kids have a cash flow. So 6 people live in a 1bhk in Mumbai – 4 […]

I never sit in a traffic jam and ask “who caused the jam”? I clearly know that I am the Jam! Similarly I hate telling people that “Investors herd”. Of course they do. I am just observing, not commenting on this. Herding is neither good nor bad. Herding is neither good nor bad, it is […]

When I meet a potential business client it is fairly obvious that I would talk about – a) Wealth Prescription for Doctors b) Goal Based Investing – You Can be Rich Too! c) Retire Rich: Invest Rs. 40 a day Fairly Obviously I would have done something on these lines with the corporate. I am […]

When you are investing – especially in equities and real estate – you get to hear a lot of stories. Some true, some exaggerated, mostly untrue. However even when you hear a story that is untrue after sometime you start believing that they were true. Look at the number of Akbar Birbal stories, Tenali Raman […]