What is value investing? Is there value in the market today?   http://m.moneycontrol.com/news/features/crack-the-code-aims-to-educate-investors_7355541.html  

There seems to be a list of lists as far as investment mistakes or sins are concerned…this is my list… Not having a Goal while choosing products: Well qualified people come and just ask ‘I am investing in xyz fund is it a good fund’?..There maybe NOTHING to say whether it is a good fund […]

As a nation our attitude towards success is a little funny. Let me explain. Try standing in a group and say something nice about any successful person – Sunil Gavaskar, Lata Mangeshkar, Dhirubhai/Mukesh Ambani, Ratan Tata, Aamir Khan, Sindhu, Gopichand, Narayan Murthy, Deepak Parekh, Kumarmangalam Birla,  Sachin Tendulkar – the person, age, gender,  does not […]

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Are you a DIY who thinks he/she can do the whole financial planning process by themselves? And that you will go through the process of goal setting, finding the most appropriate tools (mutual funds, bonds, equities, real estate…or whatever), select the fund schemes, invest, keep updated, track investments, file Income tax returns, and do annual […]

Now let’s play with the growth and risk numbers a little. Let’s say that a lot of competition is coming in from overseas and that growth may slow from 5 percent to 4.5 percent. How will this change in growth affect price? Here are the new numbers: D1 = 10.45, g = 4.5 percent (0.045) and r = 10 percent […]

I was part of a panel which said something like ‘Out of the box thinking’ in the MF distribution space. I liked it..but there is so much basic work to do… Amc’s are sitting on their backs and hoping that the existing 230 IFAs will grow the business. I think we are about 20,000,000 IFA […]