Myth: Time in the market is more important that timing the market. This says that the longer you stay invested, the more chances of you making money. Again, only partly true. Good investors know that timing is all. While no one can call market peaks or troughs correctly all the time, we all can figure […]
After a particular stage in life you get skeptical about what you read. In the financial services industry, reading an article is important, but reading the byline is perhaps more important. Also knowing why he/she is saying and the tone in which they are saying is also very important. I am not even talking about […]
I am perhaps one of those rare people who say ‘An investor is personally responsible for Ruining his portfolio’. Of course there are people who help him on the way, but primarily he and he alone is responsible. A financial planner makes some assumptions about client behavior. Let us see some of the impossibly irrational […]
How do you know when is the market in a bull phase and when in a bear phase? Well it is surely difficult to know during the phase itself – only at the end of the run do you realize whether it was a bull run or a bear run. However there are some signals […]
Myth: Time in the market is more important that timing the market. This says that the longer you stay invested, the more chances of you making money. Again, only partly true. Good investors know that timing is all. While no one can call market peaks or troughs correctly all the time, we all can figure […]