small investor, financial literacy, financial awareness, financial inclusion….what an amazing array of words we have created for bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen, capital market pundits to meet and eat! Frankly if you want to climb the Himalayas you need to join a Gym get into good shape and then climb the Himalayas. In the investment arena you […]

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One reader called this column “Malice towards one and all” . Sorry Kushwant Singh, you are not alone. I have also done a ‘Round and About’ and started in on a Saturday by saying…”All this is my own work…..”Sorry Busybee, sorry Late Beheram Contractor. Let us check out some history of investor protection. It is […]

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In such a volatile market the small investor needs protection. I can safely start a speech with this statement immaterial of the forum at which I am speaking. I will get a lot of applauses for this universally true statement. Let us now see what it means. One it is a Mother Hood statement and […]

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Thanks to the media most people know about SIP – Systematic Investment Planning. Of course the basis of SIP is rupee cost averaging (or dollar cost averaging as an international website would call it). Rupee cost averaging is a series of equal rupee investments made at regular intervals. It sounds simple to do so most […]

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I have been in the markets for a real long time. As a friend says when we entered the market flying was considered dangerous and sex was considered safe! I started learning about something called PRICE-DIVIDEND RATIO. I was told dividends are the only thing that a small investor knows for real, so he should […]

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