You can imagine how complicated money and investing has become that one has to start to offer rules to navigate the terrain. No one is spared – young, old, rich, not so rich. So, here’s a fresh set of reminders. The bottomline is that you don’t need to do a lot to be successful in […]
Everyone wants to invest but no one wants to plan
Volatility is a fact of the market linked investments. Just that when it decides to play a little harder, there are investors who run like plucked chicken. I mean the unprepared ones. They are making frantic calls, reading anything and everything to know what should be the next action? Well, is that how your investment […]
How the stock market crash is hurting the investor? – Media vs You
Read any newspaper headlines about the stock market and you would come to believe that we have almost entered a bear market. There is a stock market crash leaving investor’s nowhere to run and portfolios are dripping RED. Here’s how some of them go. Sensex crashes 500 points. Market crash wipes out over Rupees 1 trillion […]
Safety, Taxation and Returns – A refresher on debt funds
I am sure you have read the newspapers about how some debt funds have lost value courtesy their holdings of various group companies of IL&FS. As a result you too see a loss in the current value of your investment. You were not prepared for it. To quickly summarise, a rating agency questioned the financial […]
6 investing basics that we keep forgetting
Oh yes! The basics. Too often ignored since they are just basics. We are looking for advanced, exotic, get rich quick. And only when the reality slaps us do we find ourselves thinking again – What went wrong? Money basics are not just about numbers or calculations but about behaviour too. You have read them before at some […]
Small cap funds – Gates open now
The small cap investor in mutual funds is once again spoilt for choices. The old, the new, the big, the bad and the ugly – every one of the funds out there is now open to take your money and multiply it. At least that’s your expectation. In the past couple of years, most of […]
