Move out of your comfort zone
In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable. Party conversations are a great pointer of public mood. Evening after evening spent […]
Global inflation rises. Commodity prices may fall.
Quick Edit: Every election makes psychologists out of equity investors. With every election, the tribe of arm chair experts is growing. […]
Put your conviction to work.
“When will you turn bullish?” Posing this question to an informed fund manager drew a cool response. “When the FII’s sell”. This […]
To wait or not to wait?
The RBI raised interest rates by 0.25%. Should that really be a worry? If so, for whom? The banks aren’t going to […]
Volatile Trade Continues
Steroids are wonder drugs meant to pull things up with recipients. Putting steroids to work is often an easy option before physicians […]
Think forward when markets look side-wards.
The third week of results season just went by. The last of the week’s results came from HDFC bank, India’s most adored […]
It is raining dividends
Investors tend to be influenced by others when they decide what to do with their money. After all, investors always try to […]
Expect Volatility
The loss of public confidence is the most difficult thing that Nations face in building their infrastructure. If the investing public is […]
Manage Expectations and Beliefs
2013 winds to a close and it is time to set expectations for 2014. Investors expected little from equities in 2013 and […]
Revisit your idea of risk.
Quick Edit: The Indian parliament has sat for the least hours in 2013. Sad, isn’t it? But, in the year that Parliament […]
Build Consistency
One week we are celebrating political change. The next week is a very different one. The economic compulsion of politics simply takes […]
Caution is your watchword.
When politics sets the agenda for the stock market, it often leads investors to a state of confusion. Should one put economic […]