Well frankly, I do not have an answer… – Domestic growth has slowed in recent months to pretty low levels, and a senior banker saying be happy with 6% growth next year – A fallen and further falling Rupee? -Inflation stuck at double digits – latest is 10%! – RBI’s constant raising of interest rates [...]
In my recent travels many people asked me… 1. Should I buy more gold? Experts are telling me it will give 25% return in one year. 2. I earned 20% return on a Non Convertible debenture…should I put more money in that? 3. I am 70 years of age – should I sell ALL my [...]
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 [...]
Was wondering what are the few sentences that a person should be taught to be in the financial media business. Here are a few: As we had said earlier, the market is now decoupled. Even though the markets went down yesterday in US Indian markets have gone up. Indian markets have gone down, in keeping [...]
Just wondering what advise would the American investors be getting from their advisers? Well they must be saying: – US has been downgraded, but our government is still able to borrow at rates at their lowest rates in the past 60 years. – US is growing at a rate better than all the others in [...]
The number of people who advise investors to invest in Index funds is now increasing. Of course many of them are victims of the Great American media program. As long as Prashant Jain, Naren Sankaran, Nagnath, Sukumar are managing funds for me for a 2% fee why should I ‘index’ my portfolio? There are many [...]