So when you are worried about the ‘growth’ shares you should invest in dividend oriented shares or in dividend yield funds. Right? Wrong, well at least partially wrong. If you think you will get rid of your bank fixed deposit yielding 9%p.a. and invest in an equity share that yields 6% p.a. (and hoping […]
If I did not know how the government works (no even now I do not, but some readers may think I know), I would have believed that the brokers association has done a good lobbying job. That does not seem to be the case. However the RGESS (Rajiv Gandhi Equity Saving Scheme) is likely […]
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 […]
Well none of us know what next…but let us look at the crystal ball: – we are at 16,200 on the sensex as I write this post. Do not rule out a 25% jump in about 12 months time – which is more than 3 years yield in the debt market. – we all knew […]
People keep asking me ‘Have the markets bottomed out?’ To me the answer is NO. I am not saying that you should wait for the bottom – I have my shopping list and have already bought some shares, but no we may not be at the bottom. Friday was a shopping day..and I did buy.. […]
So many people are asking me: Is it a good time to buy shares? Is L&T a good buy….it has fallen by Rs. 400? Is it time to put money in the Nifty? Should I average my Reliance Industries – I had bought it at Rs. 1200! Should I buy Suzlon..I had bought it at […]
The US being downgraded from AAA to AA+ is being touted as a huge and big event impacting the world economy. It is exactly like a cancer patient in ICU dying. Yes if he is a relative, the eyes do get moist. If he is very close, you might even feel devastated. However the day […]