I wish I could do an article like that in India. I have always been screaming that we do not have enough good quality publicly available data. Does not matter whether I am talking about investing, saving, spending,….read this data driven article by Motley Fool http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/06/15/4-shocking-examples-of-the-decline-of-the-middle-.aspx
What are the signals of knowing an adviser is good or bad? Sadly even though one can write many points to know who is a good adviser…the need is for spotting the WRONG guy which is more important! If he says the following things, keep your antenna up and please pick up the signals: 1. […]
One young fresh MBA girl walked up to me and said ‘I want to get really rich…if you give me just 1% of your wealth, I will be rich’. I said, I will make you rich and teach you to get really wealthy, WITHOUT giving you anything, but by just teaching you…HOW to get rich. […]
tuesday….the day after Mahashivratri…will be on Cnbc awaaz along with Swati Kumari answering questions on INvesting..in Hindi…..
It is not that the retail investor cannot invest on his own, it is just I think the odds are terribly against them. Let us look at some of the foolish statements that I hear from time to time: 1. I do not make losses in the market: A wife told me that this […]
The term Bear Market is not easy to define. A loose consensus is when the market falls 20%, it is officially called a bear market. Let us say the market has fallen from 21000 to 17000, then it is a bear market. However, just hold on, life is not so simple! Too many pundits and […]
Many people ask me- will I be able to do financial planning myself? My answer is sure, but if you are a student of financial planning or the head of research in a pharmaceutical company trying to do your own financial planning, you need to know the following things before you start. Just check […]