Sensex headed to 14000 or 18000?

Well frankly, I do not have an answer… – Domestic growth has slowed in recent months to pretty low levels, and a senior banker saying be happy with 6% growth next year – A fallen and further falling Rupee? -Inflation stuck at double digits – latest is 10%! – RBI’s constant raising of interest rates [...]

Riskless portfolios…

I am not sure about the social media and investment advice, but am worried about the people who talk about risk in the media! Let us see some comments: 1. At this point if you are afraid of the markets you should shift to a RISKLESS portfolio of debt funds, FMP and bank deposits. Yuck, [...]

Retirement Advice: Completely wrong!

A lot of qualified planners have given the following advice to a few people who have written in to me..let me summarize a few of them for you: 1. Equity is risky, it has no place in your portfolio. I write so much about equity, I am sure my readers know how stupid this line [...]

No risk portfolio

‘The biggest risk in a portfolio is the portfolio creator’s inability to understand risk’ I have no clue whether Mark Twain, Warren Buffet, Peter Lynch, Taleb, or anybody else has made this statement…if they have not, here is a original statement from Subramoney. As originals are very rare, please remember you read it here first. [...]

Inflation: Combat with smart spending tips!

This is an old article which I had written for MoneyControl about 4-5 years ago Some tips on smart spending! THE basic needs of man are food, clothing, shelter and entertainment. Today, most of us have graduated from needs to luxuries. When the newspaper headlines were screaming inflation at 11.9 per cent, it became a [...]

Moral Dilemma in Financial blogging…

  Not long ago I used to appear on TV at regular intervals. The channels that I used to appear regularly are ET TV, Bloomberg Utvi, and much less frequently on Cnbc and Cnbc Awaaz. So obviously PR agencies had seen me – and two of them approached me. One of them said ‘look at [...]