I have no views, and I have no position in gold. I do not understand bullion or most of the commodities. This is a caveat. However, I know one thing – price is determined by demand and supply. This is universally true. And has always been true. Now one story I keep hearing is that […]

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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 […]

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This morning I was watching television and an expert came…. He was asked what shares to buy…he said buy pharma. He then said buy GSK…. Then he was asked which shares one should NOT BUY…and he said: Do not buy Realty stocks, infrastructure stocks, auto, ….not sure what else..but auto, infra and realty were surely […]

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It would be so nice if Mr. Market had a blog where he could come and say ‘From today till Nov. 2014 I am going to be a bear’. Since there is no such blog or tweet we keep guessing whether we are in a bull market or a bear market…as outsiders mind you! It […]

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Here is an article which almost looks suspicious because it is in The Economist. Also coming at a time when Mr. Ratan Tata is being badgered by the media this is a nice article. Read on…it is nice..by the way I am an unabashed admirer of the group…my Mom grew up @ Jamshedpur and still […]

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The frankest answer is I do not know. However I do train lots and lots of people so the easiest thing is to pick a phone number and give it to you. Or even worse put a few numbers on my blog / site. Well I do none of these..instead here are some suggestions (some […]

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The word SWR or Standard Withdrawal Rates is not an Indian term – at least I have not seen any Indian website or magazine use it…It is a UK or US terminology…let us see what it means.. It is the amount of money that you should be able to withdraw comfortably from your Retirement corpus […]

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