LTCM – long term capital management – you will find the history of this company which had 2 Nobel Prize winners and many bankers…and brought the world to a standstill is worth reading about. More important read this… https://novelinvestor.com/buffetts-lessons-long-term-capital-management/
At the outset let me tell you that I do not like to say “I am proud of you” to my daughter. First of all, ‘pride’ is not something that I wish to ‘cultivate’. Pride is not a very positive sentiment, and can be painful at some stage. So I do not like to say […]
I was going through an American survey (India has no credible investor perception surveys) and I found real rich Americans expected their over all portfolio to deliver about 8.5% p.a. returns. Remove the debt portion yielding about 2.5% – and it means that the equity  shares in the portfolio has to yield about 13% p.a. […]
What a topic! There is only one truthful answer to this: I DO NOT KNOW! However, far more importantly, your investing or not investing should not depend on finding the answer to this. I have seen IFA saying “markets will surely give 22% return per annum on a SIP basis” and garner a lot of […]
can do a session in Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune and Chennai. If you are interested, please say which location. It will be a Saturday. “You Can be Rich too – Goal Based Investing”..11am to 4pm. Dates will be July/ August. Need at least 30 people in each location and a volunteer too đŸ™‚ please indicate in […]
When I see my friends who are still in full time employment, I am surprised how busy they are. They work more than 80 hours a week, hold meetings, they are on email, twitter – maybe it is being managed by somebody else, and they are constantly on a hustle. I do not see them […]
It is customary for people to refer to jobs as “9 to 6 jobs” or “9 to 5” jobs. Well it sounds odd, does it not? Why should anybody work from 9 in the morning to 5pm? and then for some more time? Are we productive for 8/10 hours a day? Really in all jobs? […]