You hear often ‘The Rich are getting Richer….’ have you wondered why? The main reasons: a. The power of compounding b. Income far, far greater than expenditure c. Understanding the Wealth Virtuous Cycle d. Ability to take risk e. Deep wealth buckets ensuring no asset class is ever reduced to zero In the real world […]
There are many people who ask me “is this a good time to be investing”. I counter this by saying “Anytime is a good time to start a SIP”. Let us see what happens to people who want to pick up stocks / shares and keep it for a long time. Should long term investors […]
This is a result of being in the 4th decade of my investing life. Not all the lessons were personally learnt – some where learnt from the reading, teaching, talking, dreaming, writing, commenting about investing. So if you see some points from other authors, writers, commentators do not feel outraged. We both may have […]
Only thing about markets is NOBODY knows what will happen in the future. Some of us sound like a genius by saying the same thing again and again. Some other brave fools go to the roof top and say ‘Market will go up 22% this year’ and the market makes them look like fools. However, […]
India is a savings country. It suits the government very well. Most Indians keep the money in banks, national savings certificates, Kvp. Of course to ‘save’ Income tax they put the money in LIC. When the government gets cheap money it is happy. Of course these days it needs the equity market also has to […]
Set A: Statements we make: ‘Hdfc Top 200 is a fund which is DOING well…. Real estate prices ALWAYS GO UP in Mumbai……. Gold prices are GOING up…. Real estate prices are GOING up…. Equity markets are DOING BADLY….. We hear and make these statements, do we not? What we mean is ‘Last […]
Will the market recover? When, not whether is the question. If my students do not ask “When will the market touch 21000 again?”, I ask them the same question. The most optimistic answer I have got is 6 months and the most pessimistic answer I have got is 2 years. Very clearly short term […]