In July 2022, we started a new journey – a no nonsense guide to build wealth and be free – the Lighthouse, an exclusive and premium newsletter. I am glad to announce that the second edition – Aug 2022 – is out now. This edition contains the following: Strategy Feature: GOLD for an uncertain world […]
How to make investing safe?
This is a title that is sure to catch attention. As investors in the markets, we want the upside but not the downside. After all, we want our money to grow up and not go down. It is the reason we invest. We also know that it doesn’t happen that way. Investing is about working […]
How an investor falls?
It is not easy to be an investor in the markets. The markets manipulate the mind, constantly. The servant becomes the master. This is the story of how an investor falls. Take a look at the image below. This is an investors’ mutual fund portfolio. The equity portfolio is about 10% of the overall portfolio. […]
Investor and Irony
The irony of our behaviour as investors is that investing should help us prosper yet our actions leads to the opposite. We suffer because what we believe, what we say and what we do are out of sync. There is a big gap. Let me show you how. Here are some examples. First the most […]
Don’t do these 12 things in the current markets
Don’t extrapolate last 18 months returns to the next 18 months. Don’t have your entire portfolio in equity. Diversify and be conservative. Don’t rush into mid and small caps. They give you the worst kind of rides. Don’t exit all your investments out of fear. It is mighty difficult to come back. Don’t bet on […]
On Money, Investing and Behaviour
It is NOT easy to control our temperament. It is not easy because the number of things happening around us affect us. The information that comes our way through popular media, confuses us. And we, more often than not, give in to them. One needs great strength of mind to navigate through these monsters attacking us in the garb […]
