There is not enough literature or education of how to handle your portfolio during your withdrawing phase. This is obvious – there is no money to be made withdrawing from your portfolio. There is a lot of money to be made while you accumulate it, but NIL when you are withdrawing it. Fair enough, right. […]

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A thing looks expensive or inexpensive, healthy or unhealthy, good or bad – depends on the lens through which you look. Just change the lens from short term to long term lens, clarity comes on its own. Take a sweet for example. For the short term (30 seconds on the lips/tongue) it looks great, but […]

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As usual, I do not have an answer. However I can lead you to the definition of “Irrational Exuberance”…I hope at least some of you know its association with Alan Greenspan! Well this is what it means: When all people believe that: •    The reward will outweigh the risk •    This time it will be […]

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Well if you think your broker hid something from you….well you are partially hide! Also when your broker did not tell you that dealing in derivatives will lead to a quick death…well that is also partially true! The problem is Death Derivatives are something new – and both the above statements are not true for […]

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Many many and many more people have asked me this question. Why do I not teach at Business Schools? Well let me enumerate the reasons – not even hinting that there are no more reasons! 1. Colleges do not pay well: In Mumbai the kind of money one gets for teaching is so low that […]

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Let us see…getting rich is easy is it not? Get a good degree ——> It will lead to a great job—-> You will earn a lot of money —-> You have got rich. This is one route. Well there are some issues – every body cannot get a good degree..so the scheme is torpedoed at […]

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Wockhardt and then Emaar have withdrawn their IPOs. Withdrawn is a joke. The public did not buy them, therefore the issue is gone back. What is the learning? In a rising market nobody, really nobody has any interest in saying that the issue is overpriced and the end customer should not subscribe. A greedy promoter […]

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