Archive for the 'Equity' Category

Yes it is a bear Market: what to do?

The term Bear Market is not easy to define. A loose consensus is when the market falls 20%, it is officially called a bear market. Let us say the market has fallen from 21000 to 17000, then it is a bear market. However, just hold on, life is not so simple! Too many pundits and [...]

How to invest in turbulent times…

this appeared last week in MoneyControl…. Investment in turbulent times! The market has gone nowhere in the past 4 years. When your financial planner / relationship manager / advisor told you that equities are for the long run he/she also said ‘long run’ means more than one year, correct? Well you invested when the index [...]

My lessons in equity….

Reader: Sir is Hindalco a good company? Subramoney: Yes, of course. R: Good i bought it at Rs. 240. S: Hmm good. What is the price of the share now? R: Such a good company sir, I thought you would know the price! It is Rs. 174 now…(not sure about the date – a few [...]

Indian markets are still expensive?

People keep asking me ‘Have the markets bottomed out?’ To me the answer is NO. I am not saying that you should wait for the bottom – I have my shopping list and have already bought some shares, but no we may not be at the bottom. Friday was a shopping day..and I did buy.. [...]

Golden Run…

Long long ago – at the beginning of 2008 perhaps – one fund manager told me ‘Subra the best, Golden Run of our lifetimes is over’ to see the index go up from 3000 to 21000 in 4-5 years is a super dream gone right, may not happen again. We then spoke about how we [...]

Investment Myths: Market timing..

“This is a good time to enter the market” What bull shit. Complete bull. Nobody, repeat nobody knows whether it is a good time to enter the market or not to enter the market. So what do we do? We watch TV or ask our broker. If the TV anchor says wait for 5 months, [...]