So should you invest directly in equities? Well here are some risks that I can see in the market today. Thought I should share it with you: Risk No. 1: No fund manager is talking about interest rates going up. Ben Bernanke who thinks all problems can be solved by keeping interest low will have [...]
2 companies I know and have dealt with are going through a crisis. For obvious reasons their names are held back. Both these organisations are very aggressively run and run by the founder himself. Both the founders are about 50 years of age and have created a good name for themselves. Most of the employee [...]
It is still a White Man’s World. And risk perception is decided by the White man. So if he says risk is in emerging countries, well it is time we told the White Man that risk is to be priced that is all. Frankly the Western World is in denial about the Greece problem. There [...]
Many things in life are better achieved slowly if you want the gain to be permanent! Does this remind you of another boring task – the process of losing weight? If so, welcome! Investing and money management is a lot like eating. So is losing debt like dieting? maybe…maybe not. Is getting out of debt [...]
this article appeared in money mantra….as a lead story on inflation. Inflation is perhaps one of the least understood risks in investing. Understanding the power of small numbers is not easy. That is the reason why people find it difficult to understand the impact of compounding too – after all inflation is just negative compounding. [...]
There is good ego and bad ego. The good ego is what tells the kid that the body is different from the table. It tells you where your body starts and where it ends. If you see a 2-year old kid going under a table or a chair – he is checking out his ‘ego’. [...]