I have dealt with rich people or very rich people for a long part of my life. Right from filing their Income tax returns to going with them to the Supreme court to fight with their partners, brothers, cousins…to doing their investment analysis. Here are some of my observations about why they keep getting richer. […]

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At my age attending Investment Conferences is not of much use. Not that I do not have anything to learn, just that I do not have enough time left in life to be implement new learning. So learning is not of much use – except of course to write blogs. What did I learn from […]

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                                      Some market observations…not all original… Time is more valuable in equity markets than money the longer you stay the greater the chance of winning in equity markets costs, fees, taxes do matter if you can save […]

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It is not price, but what value you are getting for that price that a Value Investor looks for. What is needed to be a Value Investor? Tremendous discipline and tremendous patience to sit on cash for long periods of time. Every day that you do not buy the market mocks you. You look like […]

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Subra is it all right to park some money in an index fund for a few months – say 18 months asks a reader? Tough ask, but a fair question I thought. The Sensex has been behaving very well even over short term periods of say 15 months and like Riddham Desai said at the […]

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You may be aware that the Ministry of Finance through a notification issued in June 2017, has made it mandatory for all customers to update their Aadhaar number for all financial accounts including mutual fund investments by December 31, 2017. I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS..I AM FORWARDING AN EMAIL FROM A BIG FUND HOUSE Based on the […]

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When a client with Rs. 30L exposure in mutual funds – largely equity gets a call from a client saying “I wish to sell my SPARE house worth Rs. 3 crores and put it in a mid-cap fund” how should he react? As a Trainer one could just say “i think its too risky” or […]

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