I am very, very old fashioned in my ‘valuation’ techniques. If you search through my blog you will see a lot of posts criticising the new gen valuation techniques. I used to like the PDR – price to DIVIDEND ratio. Then my valuation friends changed it to PER (price earning ratio). Of course then there […]

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  This may sound very simple, but then simple things which we think are common sense need to be told…right? So what are the 4 crucial factors that determine your retirement corpus amount? Well if you do not know, here are the 4 factors: 1. How much you invest:  Many people think that they know […]

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It is not easy to give simple advice. It is ever more difficult to follow them. Simply because if you do follow them and make money, your MAIN assumption in life ‘what is complicated is good’ is shattered. Ok here are some old nuggets which I have said in the past, saying it now, and […]

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  Either people do not understand or do not want to apply common sense….so some investment myths continue. Let me list some of the emails that I have received recently…. 1. ‘What ever you say about Gold, NO OTHER ASSET CLASS has given the kind of return that gold has given in the last 40 […]

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              http://www.subramoney.com/2011/06/investing-books-the-must-read-types/ Many people keep asking me for a list of books to read – books on investing. I had put together a list and I do keep making some changes in them…so instead of making a list again I have put the link to the same article. Books […]

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Let us see what the law says about Board Composition (some of it is common sense too!): – board should have an optimum mix of Executive and Non-Exec directors – check all remuneration is checked by the Board and approved by the shareholders – check whether the Board has met at least 4 times in […]

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We have all been using toothpaste, shampoo, soap, malt drinks, Bournvita, Horlicks, Complan…..even though we may be new to life insurance, pension plans, etc. If you see the pictures on the cover of the items that you buy you see pictures of how much to use. The toothpaste cover shows toothpaste from one end of […]

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