When somebody asks you a question like this, what can you really say? I have seen Suzie Orman say “you have $ 59,000 in a Roth IRA, you have………blah blah….” so go ahead and you will be able to afford it! I would like to take a slightly different route. Let us say the person […]
If porn is expected to excite you – emotionally well financial news papers do it just as well as the television media! I decided to be as free of emotion (:)). So I decided to pick a news item which read like this: ” …the firm in its report ..said also pointed to continued EROSION […]
Shariah Investments in my portfolio, no thanks! Benchmark Mutual fund announced a Shariah compliant fund recently. Of course many mutual funds (Reliance, UTI, to name 2) are all in the process of launching and managing a Shariah compliant fund. What is a Shariah compliant fund? And what does it do? Shariah, the religious law of […]
My parents always managed to make ends meet, even though my mother was a stay-at-home mom and my father worked in a factory! Neither my sibling nor I did things like ‘tuitions’ and these kind of income supplementing stuff. Of course unlike many people of my father’s generation he did not have to support his […]
There are too many reasons why “investors” lose money in equities. Here I am trying to enumerate some of them. Keep visiting this post because as I get more points I will add them here rather than create a new post. 1. Confusing between trading and investing: Traders and investors both make money if done […]