Archive for the 'Investing' Category

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, [...]

Market timing works?

For those who watch the ticker channels hoping to get wealthy, my sincere good wishes. As long as you know (and remember) that Cnbc, Bloomberg, Bloomberg UTV, ET Now, Zee Business, etc. are business channels with a sole aim of making money for themselves (ask their bleeding shareholders), and not to create wealth for you, [...]

Mutual fund ratings?

Many people look at the ratings of a mutual fund before investing in them. This is what is the intention of the rating agencies! However they will tell you that ratings are backward looking (there is only Mercer which does forward looking ratings, but obviously available at a very high fee – which is fair [...]

Tactical Asset Allocation?

What is tactical asset allocation? How is it even relevant for die hard BULLS like me who are 70% in equities in a down market and 97% in equities in a bull market? Well Tactical Asset Allocation happens when you pull out some money from equity assets and keep that money in other asset classes [...]

SIP does not work!

No this is not an appropriate title…just a controversial one…. I was wondering what to title this article….decided on this one. Well in the ‘electronic age’ there seems to be a disconnect between the body of the article and the title. Let me explain. Vidya Bala is a very sharp journalist who works with Hindu [...]

Ten Easy Steps to create Wealth: what works?

Lot of young adults ask me “How to get Rich?” – and like I have always said..under their breath they utter “quickly”. Like one of the persons said ‘Sir when I say rich or wealthy..I see myself roaming the world in J class and skiing in the Alps, not sipping coffee in Switzerland when I [...]