“The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are there for his convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.” I think Benjamin Graham was […]
When the very affable, 32 year old Priyanka snapped at Suryanarayan, the HR head, the young 23 year old Arjun put in his papers, when the 48 year old accountant Paresh was rushed to the hospital with a mild heart attack all during the normal working day for Suryanarayanan the new smart HR head he […]
Understanding mean, median, mode, standard deviation, regression, reversion to the mean – is a pre-requisite to understand financial markets. Let us see some simple examples: It rained 90mm in Mumbai on 22nd July. If it rains like this for 6 months continuously, Mumbai will be drowned. It was 43* C in Lucknow on 23rd May. […]
Why do people postpone making their will? They think they will never die? Or they are sure that all their heirs know about their inner desires? Well read on… The current generation of clients whom I meet is inheriting nice big round amounts of money. However since their own salaries are far, far higher than […]
The process of providing financial fitness involves four basic steps. If you have the time, objectivity, inclination (to take time off from your family to do this) and expertise in accounting (to file your tax returns), investments, taxation, insurance, and estate planning, you can do this process on your own. However, avoiding personal bias is […]
I did a TGIF speech about investments – I met a person who told me that he clearly felt my blog was not addressing the new investor. Withing 5 minutes of him saying that one girl told me “i could not understand anything in your blog”. I hope this post removes that flaw in the […]
Today most of us have made much more money than we thought we would make! Surely some of my classmates (ok just a couple of them) with a net worth of Rs. 200 crores plus are kidding themselves if they thought they will make so much money. Frankly when we started life after getting our […]