Ego and pride are not really useful elements any where. So even while investing ego, pride, etc. have to be packed away in a box and tightly secured in a box. Many investors I know have made money because of luck or research done by some other person. However when they apply their minds […]

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The most misused and least understood ratio is the Price Earning ratio or the P E Ratio….Almost everybody who ‘invests’ talks about P/E ratio. I am sure there are many people who do not understand the full form but use it nevertheless. Well when a company earns Rs. 20 as its annual earnings, and is […]

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When any asset class goes up and keeps going up…people start finding reasons for the same. Normally you cannot find a reason. When you cannot find a reason, you have to say ‘Buyers are more than Sellers, so prices are going up’. Hey, this is just not sexy enough for our media. Imagine me going […]

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Let us face it, when the market was at 15000 most media stories were how: a) people had lost lots of money in the equity markets, b) how fixed deposits and PPF had given better returns over 3 years c) why people should be scared of the equity markets. One good thing about the media […]

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Typically, the advise given is ‘do not be sentimental about your investments’. People also ask me ‘Tell me some shares like shares in your portfolio – like Gillette, Colgate, Hero Honda, LnT, Tata Power, EiD parry,….et al which I can also buy and forget for a long period of time. Hey investing is NOT about […]

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Let us accept some facts early on: There are more bankruptcies than billionaires… We do not have any data about Indian investors, but MORE than agree with Sucheta Dalal and Moneylife that the number of investors have dwindled. This is terrible for the economy, but clearly a regulatory failure. Since we do not know by […]

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  When you have lived long enough on the planet, you have one great thing – the ability to look back.  Obviously I can look back on investing and can look back about 33 years – when I started. It is also the same age as the relationship with my friend / philosopher / guide […]

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