Financial planning and women

Women surely have some peculiar financial planning needs. We will not do too much in detail here – but suffice to say that some requirements are unique. Though most adult women I meet are married, I guess most of them will die alone – widowed, divorced, or not married at all. So at some stage [...]

Speculation profits: how to increase?

Here is a very, very old idea. Whenever people ask me how to reduce losses in day trading, futures, options, or once upon a time the old fashioned badla, I always used to be stumped.
My logic was – if you do not know the downside, any business is too risky, is it not?
The most important [...]

falling markets what to do?

This is the time that most retail investors lose patience, panic and hit the sell button. If you did that, you may not be wrong. But then you may not be right either.
Remember the best money managers (no not a businessman like Warren Buffet) have done well by protecting the downside in their clients portfolios.
I [...]

Market View: All experts

Many experts in the market now have a view on the market. This is of course only to be expected is it not? It is like when you thrust a mike in front of a person, suddenly he becomes a wise man (person?).
Mr. Ken Fisher who is himself a great fund manager and the son [...]

Market View: Nilesh Shah

At the India Equity show there were many speakers. One of the good speakers was Mr. Nilesh Shah, CIO, and Deputy Managing Director of Icici Prudential asset management company. He of course is a good speaker from the understanding point of view – his examples are always related to food though . When he [...]

It is all about money, honey.

I always liked to use this line “It requires a complicated mind to think of simple things”. Of course one needs to add that a thing is simple does not mean it is easy to do. Like giving up smoking, or if you are a pace bowler bowling on or around the off stump. Look [...]