Archive for the 'Risk' Category

Advice for the small investor…

Thanks to my style of writing many people ask me ‘What should be the strategy of investing for a small investor’ – the answer is simple. However we are Indians and we do not like simple things. If you have a brilliant mind, and think you can make money in your profession, and managing money [...]

Real estate prices and logic….

Is there any great logic to real estate prices or is it just the land, builders and the bank mafia that is responsible for keeping the prices high? Well let us look at the irrationality. Ahmedabad offers land, people and electricity (the needs for a BPO) at 50% of the prices in Malad or Goregaon. [...]

Retirement woes?

You think from your age of 50 till your age of 60 years you will earn well and be able to invest aggressively for your retirement. Then tragedy strikes. You are forced to give up your job to look after an ailing parent. Or a sibling. Or perhaps a sibling. Will you give up your [...]

Professionals Risk of Signing!

From the recent events in India and seeing the honors list of Tihar jail I guess Chartered Accountants, Cost Accountants and Company Secretaries must have been alerted…I hope! I guess it is time for professionals to be careful – if not very careful and understand some of the risks… I guess it is time they [...]

types of risk

Many people tell me they want to build a risk free portfolio. I tell them I hope you understand what is risk. They say yes. Here, these are the words that they need to know: Currency risk, inflation risk, systematic risk, principal risk, country risk, economic risk, mortgage risk, liquidity risk, volatility as risk, risk [...]

Valuation tool…

My site has many young boys and girls visiting it. Many of them are very sensible financially and even their marriage decisions are made after applying a lot of calculation…. so for all you guys n gals here is a calculator for dowry… http://www.dowrycalculator.com/ Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.