I have been inundated with calls from friends and students on what an investor should do when he or she is staring at blood in their portfolios.It reminds me of the saying — ‘this too shall pass’. I do not know its origin, but am convinced that in investing, as in life, you should keep your […]

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Buy Morgan Stanley growth fund. Yes the same close ended mutual fund that people choose to hate. Let us look at the logic. MSGF a fund by Morgan stanley fund house is a good well rounded large cap fund. Whenever a fund house launches itself it starts with a large cap fund. So this close ended fund […]

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Are the markets over heated? Are the PE ratios too high? are 2 questions that I have been asked a million times – right from the markets being at 3500 to 21000. And I have not been able to answer them. Only now I realised that the old definition of PE ratio – is the […]

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Sir John Templeton said that the four most dangerous words in investments are “It is different this time”. I am sure we have heard this a million times! “India is growing at 9%”, “There is no alternative for international funds” FIIs are looking for growth. At this growth rate, India is cheap! Correct please remember […]

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It may sound very outlandish and out dated that I do not allow my clients to borrow for investing. In fact I have become very unpopular with some clients for this very reason. However I am against people borrowing against gold, against their properties (top-up loan), personal loans or even a leveraged application in the […]

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What a sensational rumour! The sensex is down because a big group which was holding a lot of share across various counters today continued selling! There was a vested interest for a lot of people – a big power IPO has many stakeholders you see. So all the kings men and all the kings horses […]

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