Will Sensex touch the 200000 mark by 2030?

In Oct’21 Sensex crossed the 60000 mark. I’d talked about this possibility in a 2016 blog that highlighted how our nominal GDP had been growing at 14-15% for the previous 3 and 1/2 decades and the Sensex at 16% CAGR since its base year – 1979. That meant that every decade the Sensex, with all … Read more

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 near-constant decadal rates of about 15% per annum Stock markets have representation from the manufacturing and services sectors but not from agriculture. … Read more

Be optimistic, be wealthy

Our Equity markets, represented by the Sensex, have risen more than 300 times from 1979 @ 16% per annum CAGR. Future economic growth projections by analysts within India and across the world put India amongst the fastest growing economies in the world. Our markets will again provide opportunities for multiplying wealth another 200-300 times or … Read more

Looking ahead

The fundamental characteristics of the markets haven’t changed even during the current challenging times. They have followed the principles on which they have always worked on. As individual investors, while we are struggling to envision a life after the pandemic, it is understandably difficult to look beyond purely emotional reasons for making investment decisions. To … Read more

Investments during the crisis

Today, on the 27th of March 2020, as we enter a critical phase of mankind’s deepest crisis, stock markets over the world reflect the uncertainties. Fact is, stock markets never like uncertainties and this time around it is uncertainty personified. As investors, we wonder what we should be doing about our investments – buy, sell, … Read more