Hey frankly you do not have too much of a choice, do you? You would hate to hear this if your financial adviser (financial product salesman) were to tell you, but it is the truth. You have no choice in seeing where to invest for people looking to hedge against the risk of higher inflation. […]
There is an earlier post on “why people lose money in equities” so I called this post “why….” continued that is all. Many readers, blog writers, editors, like this title. Also many people who lose money in equities think they are unique. Here is a clarification. In all my experience, I can easily tabulate the […]
There are too many reasons why “investors” lose money in equities. Here I am trying to enumerate some of them. Keep visiting this post because as I get more points I will add them here rather than create a new post. 1. Confusing between trading and investing: Traders and investors both make money if done […]
As is fashionable and necessary there is a discussion on a leading channel about how the market will behave. Of course to quote Taleb “Sensible sound bytes is an oxymoron”. So please listen to all the noise and come to your own conclusion. There is Shankar sharma who is predicting that the market might see […]
If you read what John Templeton says, you will believe that you need to create a diversified portfolio – a little of Japanese stocks, lots of American, some emerging markets, etc. in equity alone. Apart from this some debt – short term, long term, etc. Warren Buffet on the other hand says you should concentrate […]
I did not want to call this also Warren Buffets’ lessons, but it is one! WB says Short term forecasts are useless. He says “the forecast tells you more about the forecaster than the subject matter of the forecast” Cahrlie Munger and WB concur on one thing “market forecasts are like poison” it should be […]
As is customary there is now a series of interviews to find out whether we are in a bull market or a bear market. Udyan Mukherjee is speaking to a host of experts to ask for their views. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala – (whose call on the IT stocks last June was bang on target) says we […]