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“Past performance is not an indicator of future performance” — the literature of every mutual fund you own, mentions something to this effect. In fact once, when I was lecturing at a mutual fund house, which was not performing well,… Read more

Frankly I do not have an answer…but let us see what can happen. Lots of people who have made money on the up ride from 9k to 20k whom I know are happy to sit on cash earning 10 to… Read more

This is a question that is always difficult to answer. The best thing to do is to fully deflect the question! However with a low IQ it is possible to attempt an answer to this! Even though I do belong… Read more

Every time I talk about equity investing, I ask my audience to invest in 2 notebooks of 200 pages each. One notebook to write down what makes you buy / sell a share, what price you are paying, transaction charges,… Read more

There are too many reasons why “investors” lose money in equities. Here I am trying to enumerate some of them. Keep visiting this post because as I get more points I will add them here rather than create a new… Read more

Just go back in time. Rewind to Diwali 2005. All the bulls including die-hard bulls said the market would have done great if it ended Diwali of 2006 at the same index as Diwali 2005. No expert was willing to… Read more

LinkedIn came out with an IPO and became an instant hit. I am personally against IPOs – and my reasons have nothing to do with LinkedIn. I am on LinkedIn and have benefited by being on it. However I am… Read more

One of the kids in our office said “I can write well”. To me that is like music! So I said, ok write an article on ‘how to select a good broker’. This is what she wrote…Please read it carefully,… Read more

I had a long, funny and sometimes heated discussion with an equity analyst. Not that he is a great analyst – nor is he a bad one. However like most fund managers he believes ‘equity returns are a function of… Read more

I could have written a long article or just said…’I have said it so many times’…! There is no great secret to investing in volatile times. Imagine the situation of a person who is doing a Recurring Deposit in a… Read more