‘Hello Subra sir where is the market headed’ Me: I do not know. Inv Aspirant: Come on sir, you have been so long in the markets you will surely know. Me: to know where the market (I am assuming you mean Sensex, which is a derivative of the top 30 stocks in the Indian stock […]

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I have been wondering why some big company keen on E governance not coming up with the following services: 1. a centralized qualification database: a person should be able to convert all his qualifications, marksheets, etc into E form. 2. a centralized MEDICAL database: wherein all the medical records of a person should be nicely […]

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  Today there are people who live up to the age of 95 as well as those who die at 59. Some of them have very smartly multiplied their money and some live on a hand to mouth basis. Depending on what your parents have done, and what you have done with your own life, […]

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This article appeared in MoneyControl….a few MONTHS ago… The market has gone nowhere in the past 4 years. When your financial planner / relationship manager / advisor told you that equities are for the long run he/she also said ‘long run’ means more than one year, correct? Well you invested when the index was 20000 […]

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Assuming a diary is a place where you will write down your darkest, best, …..an investment diary is a must. These 5 things MUST, MUST, MUST go into a diary if you really want to improve as a stock picker: a) log all ideas – history tells you which were good and which bad. A […]

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Is this a question that has been uppermost in your minds? I have been saying ‘do a good SIP in a good fund and go to sleep’ – and I have been blunt enough to say which funds too. Now is this applicable to all the people who read this blog? No. Of course not. […]

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I do many of these things and keep wondering how to charge for it…However if you do have a FA he should do the following for you: 1. Do not choose that instrument: He should have the guts and knowledge to say what kind of financial instruments YOU as the client should not touch. This […]

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