http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/how-much-can-you-lose-in-equity-.html Well just too many people have no rules, limits, …and have no clue on how to invest in equities. These people can, should and do lose their shirt, pants and undergarments…..and deserve it. Completely. Let us say you are a well qualified, sensible, boy or girl and wish to invest in equities. Well if […]
Will the market recover? When, not whether is the question. If my students do not ask “When will the market touch 21000 again?”, I ask them the same question. The most optimistic answer I have got is 6 months and the most pessimistic answer I have got is 2 years. Very clearly short term […]
Do I have to tell you where I heard this advice? ….so here it is: 1. If you are not confident, keep your money in cash: ‘Cash is king’ goes the argument. My take: If cash is king what is inflation? I think sitting on cash till the market improves is an amazingly stupid piece […]
Aamir Khan did a story in Satyameva Jayate where he painted the doctors black. He said: there are huge (50%) kickbacks generic medicines are not prescribed, only branded ones are doctors perform unnecessary operations. Let us take the case of other professions: Chartered accountants, insurance agents, etc are also accused of kickbacks unnecessary complications in […]
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 […]
Two Judges of the Supreme Court have passed the Judgement which has said that there was a 2G scam and have given their reasons. Everybody is happy with the judgement – Prashant Bhushan, Anna Hazare, Raja, NDA, etc. So far so good. Let us see what was (should be?) the government’s role in Infrastructure development? […]
The Quarter ended – Oct, Nov and Dec 2011 will perhaps see the worst results. This is because this is the Q that will see the full impact of high interest rates, the worst economic data (cause and effect are very difficult to know), bad mood, …etc. When these results are announced, people’s worst expectation […]