Parroting ‘time spent in the market is better than timing the market’ is done by many journalists especially in the financial sector. However it does not giving the following advise: “It is your money. So if you are nervous about the market move into cash” When there are dark clouds, when you are feeling sad, […]

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I have answered this question millions of times in my training and teaching sessions. And there are no clear answers. However students who ask this question need to understand that being ethical may be an end in itself. If something is an end in itself, how does it matter whether it should be done or […]

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This is crazy. What has happened in Satyam for me looks like an action replay.  When Ketan Parekh was ramping up his’K10′ shares I was asked why am I not buying a particular ‘S’ software. It was flouted to me that a particular fast growing fund was buying its shares and the company was doing […]

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  fuller version of this article of mine appeard in retuers under this heading: The Meltdown’ What to do?   As a colleague in the office told me, if you want to fail and you are expecting a storm, fail first! So some of the “early birds” got protection, and then the protection vanished! The […]

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