You have just finished doing 50 pushups and your trainer being ruthless orders another 50. Drenched in sweat and exhausted you don’t think you can do take one step further, leave alone do more push ups. But your trainer will not take “NO” for an answer. He keeps at it…
Picture an old-school person like your grandfather. Try and reminisce how he dealt with money. The money would be kept in a steel Safe-locker and he always knew exactly how much money he had in it. In the good Old days, bank deposits were the only investments for the middle…
We still want to own our own home but we don’t have the money needed. So, what do we do? Borrow from the bank or from our parents. And then, we spend our lives working, rather than toiling away trying to repay the dues. But then, is it worth having…
The earnings season has begun. The start of the season always sets the tone and direction for the stock markets. Early results give an indicator of how corporate performance will be and the companies which performed well are usually the ones which release results first. Anticipation of earnings motivates large…
“You know what, this is not the right track, try this other route, you will reach faster” “Stop this medication and visit Dr. XYZ” “Are you sure you want to invest in that? I think you should invest in ABC” How many times have we heard these above statements and…
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” Carl Bard Now that you’ve survived college and managed to land a job, you are on your way to financial freedom. Your first instinct is to…
An earthquake of Richter 8.9. A tsunami within hours; followed by the grave news of explosions in nuclear reactors. Japan is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. In this series of unexpected happenings, event risk returned to haunt global stock markets. In a globalized world, our markets ought to…
The Union Budget is the biggest event in the capital market calendar. The Union Finance Minister who presents the budget every year is the market’s, Santa Claus. He is seen as the Oracle of our country’s economic agenda. Year after year, the budget was a celebrated event in the nineties;…
Indian fund managers are a tired lot. They waited out 2010 for the elusive correction and finally got one in 2011. The year has only seen sliding indices , political scams , fleeing investors and floundering companies. Reputations have taken a serious knock in 2011. Nobody has been spared and…
Quick edit: The country’s bellwether stock announced a share buyback. By doing so, the company signaled to the stock markets that its stock was undervalued. In a parallel move, it has announced disappointing quarterly results. Such mixed signals only tend to create polarized opinions on the actual intent of the…
Markets have their own way of surprising investors, They fall when least expected to. They rise when we think the justification is limited. The idiosyncratic rhythm of the stock market is the only thing that is constant about it and investors need to understand how to use it to…
The markets have corrected after a sustained rise. Retail Investors have been waiting in the wings expecting a correction. Now , the retail investor needs to decide if he should enter the markets now or wait longer for a sharper fall . The dilemma of the investors who were left…