Today investing in equities is great fun, and interesting. So people go and read a lot of websites, books, magazines, articles – and find themselves nicely entangled in a web. Great. Then they read about the greats. So Warren Buffett tells them ‘Only those who do not understand what they are doing diversify’. Fantastic. Till […]

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Only thing about markets is NOBODY knows what will happen in the future. Some of us sound like a genius by saying the same thing again and again. Some other brave fools go to the roof top and say ‘Market will go up 22% this year’ and the market makes them look like fools. However, […]

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Money is a Coward. When it is scared it Runs away from the place of Crisis. – Ayn Rand in one of her books where she says Money is ONLY for people who respect Freedom and Democracy. It is happening in Europe. Money will run out of Europe. Either from the main door (long lines, […]

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I am really surprised when people ask me ‘Are we in a bull run?’ Why ask – Of course we are in a bull run. Collapse of a few economies in the world – in the middle east. The European crises – Portugal, Spain, Greece, UK…well not in that order, but you get the drift […]

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this is a part of the inflation story in Moneymantra…. Well there are two things to understand – inflation hurts only in the long run. If you have an expenditure coming up in the next 2 years inflation should not be a bother. However if you are looking at the longer run – say upwards […]

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Well frankly I do not know whether it is a good time to invest in gold or a great time to get out of gold. But let us look at the obvious reasons to buy or sell. Obvious reasons to buy: 1. The world is busy printing money so value of currencies will fall but […]

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Many people have been asking me this question. I thought I will wear the hat of an investment advisor in US and look at the world markets and see what to do. So here it is. Not too useful I am sure, but here it is: 1. All Central Banks are printing notes – so […]

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