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sanmeet kaur sahani’s 5 crores what to do?

  Mrs. Sanmeet Kaur Sahani is the first lady winner at the Kaun Banega Crorepati..(Indian version of Who wants to be a Millionaire)…this is a program conducted by the legendary Amitabh Bachhan and has got the imagination of the Indian middle class. She won Rs. 5 crores (Rs. 50 million) – about US $ 1 [...]

My investing mistakes…continued

The mistakes that I made in my equity investing have now been well documented. Now I will tell you some more shares where I did not make ENOUGH money. This is the mistake of spotting the opportunity but not having the brain power to stay through the full journey of wealth creation. Infosys: My investing [...]

Retire? look at small numbers…

When you think of accumulating a large amount of money we trouble ourselves into believing that it takes a lot of money to create money. Well it is not so. It is simpler. In fact much simpler than that. But those are the exact three words that can help you retire with Rs 40 a [...]

Some Investment Learnings in the school of hard knocks

Some lessons of investments, which need to be reiterated, lest we forget. These were learnt in the BULL markets for the next BULL as well as BEAR markets: 1. Stunning, shocking things which have never happened before will happen. With some great regularity. 2. No individual, organisation, state or country wants to look at long [...]

Peter Lynch’s teachings….will it work for you?

Peter Lynch managed money for a very short term, but did such a great job that he became very famous. He is also a very good writer – which means he has books which have sold more than a million copies. Awesome indeed. Some of the things that he said are really worth remembering, but [...]

Simple Investment techniques…

‘How come you are so thin….and maintain yourself like that?’ -is a question that all slim / well maintained people (especially girls) are asked regularly. One question which they LOVE to ask BACK is ‘How come you are so obese’ – however that is considered impolite I guess? Let us look at what people do: [...]