I had done this piece for rediff in 2006. It is relevant today also 🙂 read on… The most important animal in the markets is the pig. It gets slaughtered whether the bulls have a party or the bears have a party. That pig is your lay investor. I am not a doomsday specialist or […]

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Overconfidence while investing is one big problem while people invest. Even worse is a half baked understanding of what the masters have said. Let us take just 2 examples…from the big man – Warren Buffet himself. 1. Diversification is for mediocre people: If you do not know what you are doing, you need to diversify. […]

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A few days ago I had done a small note on Ayn Rand. She was a Economic Philosophy writer who found that US A had too much governmental interference. If you are a student of Economics you understand the word ‘rent’ in the correct sense. Rent seekers are those people who have been able to […]

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You got educated, got married, started investing and quickly you were convinced you should pay for your kids college expenses. So you invest more for your kid’s education and less for your own retirement. No I am not arguing against that. That is for another post! Some big chunk of business that the financial services […]

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Have you wondered why doctors are not really rich? They do earn well. Even in a lower middle class suburb of Mumbai they do charge reasonably well. For example a specialist (pediatrician)  doctor practicing in Navi Mumbai would charge Rs. 250 for a visit. This is not too bad for the 20 minutes that the […]

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  TV channels join the fight club AZB Partners, representing its client UTV Global Broadcasting, has sent a legal notice to CNBC-TV 18’s Managing Editor Udayan Mukherjee, asking him to apologise unconditionally on air, before 9 am today (8th March, 2010) for allegedly defaming and slandering Bloomberg UTV. Representation pic/Getty Images The notice accuses Udayan […]

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Being smart about debt can help the average investor save a guaranteed 3% p.m. This is a serious amount of money for people living on a day-to-day basis! It is a conscious decision that could save you a decent amount of money! So how can you do this? The Debt Dilemma First of all live […]

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