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Equity Investing – Avoiding a large loss
It is my firm belief that the key to building long term wealth is to never incur a large loss. The good news is that by following a few thumb-rules we can insulate our investments portfolio from any big jolt A large loss sets you back by years’...
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Equity investments – Lazy is the best strategy
The best advice that I ever got for my investments was to “leave it alone”. I remember I didn’t want to follow that advice initially and when a big international event happened, and the markets went into a downward spiral, I wanted to liquidate...
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Sensex@30000 – Value vs Valuation
The value of the sensex is at an all-time high level, but the valuations are trading near long term averages. Considering the trends in recovery of earnings, these valuations will get cheaper by the quarter Value – The long-term rise in the...
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Common Sense
A smart fund manager puts money on what he believes are the best investment ideas today that will play out in the next 3-5 years. After that he would not sit back, and wait for the next 3-5 years for the expected outcome. The best fund managers...
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Time to be a little greedy
Sometime back we had written about the fact that markets don’t like uncertainty, the reverse is also true – “Markets love certainty”. The results from the recently concluded state elections in India have set our markets on a sure-shot path of...
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Disruptions are here to stay, save wisely
In this age of continuous disruptions, the only constant is change. There is a perpetual risk to our regular sources of income – be it a job or business. What we need is to have the cushion of carefully planned savings to comfort us during times...
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Volatile markets – no problem
India is a secular growth economy and over the decades, the economy has withstood the test of national and international events, gone through upturns and downturns, with nominal GDP (Manufacturing, Services and Agriculture) growing at...
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Share Markets – Uncertainly certain
How do we make sense of the ever-fluctuating share markets? Simple, think long term In life, we are surer about the near term – where we will be tomorrow or what we will be doing next week, but as we think more into the future, the less...
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Simply Equity
The value of the Sensex in its base year in 1979 was 100 and today it is up more than 270 times giving a compounded return of upwards of 16% per annum. This return by far exceeds other popular investment class returns which rarely come close to...
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Aspire to dream, aspire to fulfill your dreams
One of the most famous studies on human psychology has concluded that the basic needs of humans must be met (like food, shelter and security) before a person can realize his true creative potential In our quest to accumulate resources to take...
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Simple is not Easy
There is a simple rule in stock market investing Buy Low – Sell High. As simple as it may sound, it is not so easy to follow. When markets fall, fear is the dominant emotion that prevails, we are afraid that markets will fall further and in...
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