There is no ONE way of building a retirement corpus! Retirement planning is almost like a religion, there are many sects, sub sects, protestants and of course there are the atheists…. Here is one method which has worked very well for a friend. However let me add that he is a brilliant stock picker, has […]

Read More →

Let us look at 4 of them: Reliance Power    ( P/e of 81, obviously not paying dividend) or Tata Power (p/e of  20 and dividend yield of  1.35), or Ntpc (p/e of 13 and div y of  2.62) or Nhpc (p/e of 8 and div yield of 3.31). could not decide, but told myself when […]

Read More →

Markets fell by 340 points yesterday and has fallen 260 points already today. For people like us markets means sensex! So what to do? I have so many panic sms coming to me! The worst thing to do is to stop the sip! Remember if you had a COMPULSORY SIP….you would have continued to invest, […]

Read More →

This is not actually a list of books to read..but a sequel to a story I had done long back on books to read… If I remember right, my original list may not included Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, or The Bed of Procruses – all are Taleb’s books. If you are not too keen […]

Read More →

Now that you have heard about a few of my mistakes, let me tell you more! So here it is: Overconfidence: It took me about 20 years of being in the markets to realize that understanding markets is difficult if not impossible. It is not the first few trades that make you confident – it […]

Read More →