I recently read an article in a magazine saying that equity investments are easy to handle. It said you should invest in equities – and sell when you reach your level of expected return, then wait for the next bear market. I think it is an amazing idea, but misses the point completely. Let us […]
In a training class there are some of the few questions I cannot wish away. Let me name a few: 1. What will happen to the market in the next 12 months? 2. When will the market reach 21000 again? (they mean Sensex) 3. Is the fall over? Will it start rising again? When? Frankly […]
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 […]
Myth: Time in the market is more important that timing the market. This says that the longer you stay invested, the more chances of you making money. Again, only partly true. Good investors know that timing is all. While no one can call market peaks or troughs correctly all the time, we all can figure […]
this article by Suraj of moneycontrol.com first appeared on ibnlive.com – i have reproduced it here as it contains my quote and reasonably explains what is an etf. So here it is as a part of my tutorial… Hovering at around 9,000 levels, the Sensex has shed more than 50 per cent of its value, […]
I would have called this a million dollar question. However, thanks to this great meltdown, let me call it the Trillion dollar question. The Optimistic view: the world loves a bull market. The world loves a winner. The world loves to see the “good” man win – that is why we pay millions of rupees […]
A few hundred calls from friends, relatives, readers….have all had the same question on their lips. “What should I do now?”, “Will the index touch 9000?”, “Should I stop my SIPs?”, “When will the market recover?” Frankly I have no answer to some of these questions. I realise that the real good fund manager (by […]