Caveat: I am not an agent for LIC. No, I am not on the payroll of the LIC. Actually I do not even know whether LIC knows that I exist. Having said that let me accept that the press (including some of us fringe players) have written a lot of bad things about LIC – […]
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/
The ancient Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, wrote, “Know your enemy” a few thousand years ago – surely before the birth of Christ! I would adapt it a little for today’s usage and say “Know your enemy and know yourself and you need not fear battles.” I have not read the Art of War recently, […]
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 🙂 please indicate in […]