This article appeared in MoneyControl…long ago..I thought it is worth a repeat.. 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 […]
Every time I talk about equity investing, I ask my audience to invest in 2 notebooks of 200 pages each. One notebook to write down what makes you buy / sell a share, what price you are paying, transaction charges, etc. Sometimes I also ask them to write what ‘gut’ feeling that they had. So […]
As soon as Dhoni won the World cup 2011 it was too tempting to write about – Management lessons from Dhoni, – Investment lessons from Dhoni, and Guru Gary. – Are Dhoni and Gary the new Arjun and Drona of Indian cricket? – How well Dhoni did asset allocation, how well he was focused, brilliant […]
Well nothing new in this post..we all know that Indians are good savers (hear hear…why banks in India are so profitable that even PSU banks make a profit)…well here is a study which was has been reported by Wharton…about India and China..nothing new, but presented in good style by Wharton’s magazine.. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.cfm?articleid=4578
Not sure whether I have written about this friend of mine who does a very different type of SIP… He started his SIPs some time in 1998-9 and is now a ‘bhakt’ of the SIP concept. Let me explain how he went about investing. Let us say he started with a SIP of Rs. 2500 […]
A lot of people who read my blog think I am against real estate. Far from it. I believe a lot of money can be made in real estate – surely greater than gold and debt instruments. Surely less than a nice portfolio of equities. However to make money in real estate the following conditions […]
This is a question that is always difficult to answer. The best thing to do is to fully deflect the question! However with a low IQ it is possible to attempt an answer to this! Even though I do belong to the Peter Lynch gang of saying ‘If you have spent 10 minutes thinking or […]