If you are a Senior Citizen, everybody wants a piece of your money, so life is not easy. Having said that even if you are not a SC there are a lot of people who want all your money, what do you do? First of all, we all need a bank account, so it is […]

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Normally the public sector units trade at a lower price earning multiple (p/e multiple for those who did not understand the full version). This is largely because there is a general feeling that the owner (manager) does not care too much about the main shareholder. To expect the ‘corrupt’ or ‘indifferent’ employee to work for […]

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If you see the fund performance in India, most, if not all fund managers have schemes which beat the the sensex or the nifty. Have you wondered why it is easy to beat the indices in India but fund managers in the US find it very difficult to do so? There are just too many […]

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1. Franklin India Bluechip fund has performed badly. Look at the last quarter. Remember this advice sometime in 2007….and as usual I smiled it away. In fact the EDITOR of a financial mag told me ‘Hey this fund is doing well in my portfolio…why is such a story being carried (somewhere else, thankfully!!). I said, […]

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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.. […]

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I had done the following post in the 1st week of June, 2006. Except for the numbers, the story is just as fine. It originally appeared in the Personal finance section of moneycontrol.com Okay, so the market fell 1,100 points on 22 May 2006, it fell 350 points on 31 May 2006 and another 327 […]

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Many people who trade and lose a lot of money do not understand many risks..some of them are: 1. Running out of money! If you have no ability to take delivery – which means you have to cut position, your bank balance and your stomach balance both are important. If you lack either one of […]

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