Let me first tell you who is a successful Investor! Who is a successful Investor? To be a successful investor do you: 1. Have to beat the index? 2. Perform better than Warren Buffet, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Prashant Jain? Uh…. 3. Get better returns than your classmate, brother in law, friend…(Relative’s return?) NO. To me there […]

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Risk in mutual fund investing comes from: a) not knowing what you are buying b) not understanding standard deviation of the instrument c) not understanding that the past performance is completely useless for knowing what will happen in the future. Let us take just one ‘type’ of fund: The Gilt Fund. All asset management companies […]

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I have a friend who is a brilliant technical analyst. Make no mistake, I have seen tons of Tech analyst, he is among the very top. I do not like Tech Analysis, esp because I rarely take SIGNIFICANT trading position. Even though there are many companies which I KNOW are terribly over-rated, I do not […]

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I recently saw a post which said ‘Alert Investors already know about ULIPs’. Amazing half truth :). Once upon a time Arun Shourie said “In India what you say depends on where you sit”. This is so amazingly true – look at the Women’s Bill. BJP says it supports the bill, Congress says it wants […]

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