Corporate Executive : Mr Ganesh S, was a senior HR professional with a leading telecom multinatio...
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Money Mantra for Teens
Money Mantra for Teens
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Money Mantra for Teens
Money Mantra for Teens
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Money Mantra for Teens
Money Mantra for Teens
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Money Mantra
Money Mantra
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Money Mantra
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It's time for new Beginnings , let's be flexible
It’s the time for change and new beginnings, the United States of America, has a new...
20.09.2020
On the Eve of India’s 70th Independence Day on 15th August 2016.
We look at Independence from a Financial perspective to do a rough check if we are all Financiall...
20.09.2020
Short Term Savings: Your enemy to your long term wealth creation
Humans have a need to feel safe and secure. This explains why we wear clothes, build homes among...
20.09.2020
Sensex @ 31000pts, Is it going to crash?
As human beings we are taught you must always make a judgement or find rationale for a certain ha...
20.09.2020
Why Mutual Funds are better than Stocks for the common Man ?
Let's say you are an active investor, with a background and history in the market, and pride your...
20.09.2020
Diversify , a Risk Mitigation Strategy
In the backdrop of the ongoing INFOSYS saga hopefully, this article will be topical.
INFO...
20.09.2020
Quit TIMING the market and spend more TIME in the market
Every person who invests in stock markets or Mutual Funds does so for the long term i.e 3 or 5 ye...
20.09.2020
THE BIGGEST RISK IS NOT TAKING RISK IN INVESTING !
In my capacity as an investment advisor, I come across many people who are totally ill planned fo...
20.09.2020
SLOW AND STEADY ALWAYS WINS THE RACE
Running a Marathon with a day’s preparation?
Most times we come across people who a...
20.09.2020
“The Abhimanyu Factor” in Investing
Investors in Equity markets suffer from what I call “The Abhimanyu Factor”.
A...
20.09.2020
Discover the Mahatma in your investing journey!
It is the 2nd of October, the birthday of Mahatma. Mahatma Gandhi ushered in India’s Freedo...
20.09.2020
Buying a Diamond Necklace - The Magical Power of Compounding
Every married man will attest to the fact that when he has spent a wonderful 25 years with his pa...
20.09.2020
Deepavali – Defeat the Spending Narakasura in you
Deepavali all over South India is celebrated as the event, marking the defeat of the Demon Naraka...
20.09.2020
HOW TO AVOID LOSING MONEY WHILST Investing?
Over the past few days, we have been hearing people losing money in some chit funds of a famous j...
20.09.2020
Why it is time to visit the Cemetary
We often come across success icons in the media, on both print and television. Be it an actor, au...
20.09.2020
THINK AND ACT DIFFERENT
Man is genetically programmed to act with HERD mentality. It is our way of survival in numbers, w...
20.09.2020
DISCOVER THE SECRET TO BEING WEALTHY
I was out to meet a customer last week and while discussing he mentioned that he had received som...
20.09.2020
8 or 80 years - In the life of a Human Being, what is long term?
Time is one the most misunderstood dimensions exposed to humans. A great movie for 3 hours will s...
20.09.2020
The Abilene Paradox in the Investment World
On the event of a birthday, a family decided to go out for dinner. Husband asked his wife, where...
20.09.2020
‘Tis The Season To Make A Change
December is a fantastic month to embrace transformation.
It’s the last month of the...
20.09.2020
MAN–O–PAUSE
It is a good time to take a small pause and look at how you have done so far in life and what are...
20.09.2020
Make it a Success or an Excuse in 2018
The New Year is nearly upon us and this is your last chance to TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE.
We ar...
20.09.2020
ACTION & PATIENCE
To be a successful investor in Stocks or Equity Mutual Funds one must be able to practice ACTION...
20.09.2020
It’s Valentine’s Day - Show your valentine that you truly love her
Somehow, from the films and television we have always watched seem to tell us that to love, means...
20.09.2020
Business men only invest in their business, should they?
I was with a client discussing the portfolio and aspects of the markets, when his friend dropped...
20.09.2020
Heads I WIN, Tails You LOSE!
One of the challenges in investing in Equity Mutual Funds is that the negatives impact us far mor...
20.09.2020
Risk & Investing - What The PNB Saga Taught Me
It is sad to note that the Punjab National Bank has suffered extensive loss on account of absence...
20.09.2020
Loss of a DIVA
Actor Sridevi was the quintessential DIVA of Indian Cinema. She held her own in Indian Cinema in...
20.09.2020
Be that instant success … long term in the making.
I was chatting with a young investor, who had made a couple of investments in the past few years....
20.09.2020
Debt or Equity which is the better investment…?
As in the story of the proverbial Rabbit & Tortoise race, the Rabbit (Equity) is a fast asset...
20.09.2020
Is your Investment GST Compliant?
No, I did not mean the Goods & Services Tax introduced recently in India.
For any suc...
20.09.2020
HOUSING LOAN DILEMMA
Last week I was with a client of mine who works for an IT services company. He had just received...
20.09.2020
Why WALK when you can RUN?
I have been inspired by this quote from the autobiography of LEE IACOCCA
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20.09.2020
New Fund OR Existing NAV Fund?
As an investor, we are looking at maximizing our returns whilst mitigating the risk of losses. So...
20.09.2020
FINANCIAL FITNESS
They say being healthy is very simple; all you have to focus is on what you EAT and what your WOR...
20.09.2020
SELECTIVE AMNESIA
This morning I was with a client discussing his portfolio and investments, when he made a comment...
20.09.2020
STOP... RESET… GO
The Indian Mutual Funds are undergoing a defining change, albeit silently and not entirely volunt...
20.09.2020
Illusion in Vision
In the early 1990s Harvard university conducted an experiment called the Monkey Business illusion...
20.09.2020
KEEP CALM & STAY INVESTED
For too many people constant action seems to symbolize progress. However in the world of investin...
20.09.2020
Early Bird Gets the WORM
Karan & Kabir, are two young people who started working pretty much at the same time. Almost...
20.09.2020
FOOTBALL SUPER STARS
The football fever is on, and all eyes are on Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar. What ma...
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ANCHOR EFFECT
Last week my friend bought an apartment at 23% less than the market value, in that locality. How...
20.09.2020
Wealth is Health
Yes, you heard it right, Wealth is Health. While it is true that health is your first wealth, it...
20.09.2020
Be a Contrarian
Today morning the Sensex hit 38,000 points (Nifty 11479 pts) during the last two months the stock...
20.09.2020
DIRECT v/s REGULAR
Welcome PAYTM!
While paytm is about to launch Paytm MONEY that will allow its subscribers...
20.09.2020
BAD TIMES are the BEST TIMES
It is the perfect storm of bad investing time in India.
While equity markets have been vo...
20.09.2020
Is FEAR Keeping You From Seeing The Opportunity
Exactly 60 days ago, the Sensex touched 39,000 points on 28th August 2018. Since then a series of...
20.09.2020
Curious Case of the Chinese Bamboo
I was at a young client’s office last week, we had been helping him do mainly Systematic In...
20.09.2020
It’s Always Darkest Before The Dawn
Opportunities are rarely, clearly visible or apparent.
Over the past six...
20.09.2020
How to Succeed in your RESOLUTIONS?
It is the beginning of the new year 2019. It is that time of the year, when we all review our lif...
20.09.2020
ZEN and the ART of INVESTING
Zen is the ancient Buddhist philosophy of Mindfulness. It encourages one observe without acting.A...
20.09.2020
What’s your vehicle?
As you drive through a busy morning at peak hour traffic, you realize the despondency of the car...
20.09.2020
Surgically Strike your Portfolio
Surgical Strike in a military term alluding to the quick and effective manner in which a small te...
20.09.2020
Women must be Wealthy !
Women have started playing a key role in various spheres of society akin to men. They are Doctors...
20.09.2020
Slump in sales of Underwear
Yes Economic Times ( 16th August) reported this news..
It must really be bad times facing...
20.09.2020
Effort + Time = GOAL
As an amateur runner, am often quizzed by friends and colleagues, can I register and run in the h...
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UPSIDE DOWN : INSIDE OUT
These days when I have a meeting with a client am a little worried. During the review the talk ve...
20.09.2020
Why is investing in Equity so Difficult ?
A year ago a friend recommended YES BANK at a price of Rs 250/-, he was so bullish on the bank an...
20.09.2020
Till Debt do us Part
Private Equity, Venture investing, Stocks, etc.. all forms of equity investing is sexy to talk.....
20.09.2020
Zeigarnik Effect on Investing.
I have observed two kinds of investors… one who makes an investment in a financial product...
20.09.2020
Why we must love the drought, the flood is too much ?
We live in a world that is near perfect. Today we have unlimited choice in every aspect of life b...
20.09.2020
Year End... a great time to review your financial goals
Portfolio Review is among the single most important but often ignored aspect in managing one&rsqu...
20.09.2020
If you are patriotic , you better BHAG in 2020.
I meet a lot of people during my working week clients, associates, and friends, being a finance g...
20.09.2020
Bad times are the best times.
Am sitting in April 2030, a good 10 years after the corona virus scare rocked the earth and kille...
20.09.2020
Design a Stunning Blog
When it comes to design, the Wix blog has everything you need to create beautiful posts that will...
20.09.2020
Now You Can Blog from Everywhere!
We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog...
20.09.2020
When there is no WIND, ROW your Boat!
It is amazing to see how much of interest there is in investing moneys when the Stock market is d...
20.09.2020
Principles of a Long Drive.
Let us imagine, you are driving from Chennai to Bangalore, the distance is 350 kms, the roads are...
20.09.2020
BHARATH BOND ETF - II
Bharath Bond ETF II is the second series of Exchange Traded Funds ( ETF) with the underlying asse...
20.09.2020
Portfolio review Via Negativa
“Via Negativa” is a negative term from the medieval times meaning through the path of...
20.09.2020
Recency Bias aiding Banking & PSU Funds
Banking & PSU Funds is a class of Debt funds. Ideally these funds invest into Public Sector B...
20.09.2020
Herd Mentality
If a million people do something, it must be right ? This is called social proof wherein we go by...
20.09.2020
All that Glitters is Gold
Gold has had an extraordinary year in 2020, going up by almost 20% in value terms. The reasons fo...
20.09.2020
Pundits who Predict & why we shouldn’t listen to them.
Everyday when we open the business news channel we are faced with the news reporter who says why...
20.09.2020
Be Athmanirbar, by investing in Global Funds
The last five years have seen tumultuous changes in the Indian Economic landscape, we have had se...
20.09.2020
Financial Independence is not FREE!!!
Most people use the word Independence & freedom interchangeably. It is a fact that India gain...
20.09.2020
Choose an Arbitrage Fund, so that your returns are not Arbitrary
The next 18-24 months is going to be a challenging time for the global and domestic economies. No...
20.09.2020
This Janmastami, Let Lord Krishna inspire your investment management.
Lord Krishna is one of the most interesting characters of the Epic Mahabarata. His role and machi...
20.09.2020
Looking beyond the Obvious : Infra Story
Earlier this week I was in conversation with a client when he asked a question that drove me to e...
20.09.2020
ZEN and fine art of investing..
You are in the middle of the jungle on your trekking trip and suddenly you find a wild elephant c...
20.09.2020
Why FDs ( Falling Down Interest), when you have Medium Term Bond Funds
We are all well aware that the Bank deposit rates have been heading deep south over the past few...
20.09.2020
I told you so… These are the magic words that everyone would like to utter after the event has been
The year was 2007, economic experts painted a rosy picture for the coming years. However twelve m...
20.09.2020
Invisible Gorilla is telling you how to invest, are you listening?
Let me tell you about the Invisible Gorilla Experiment, in the invisible Gorilla experiment, a bu...
20.09.2020
Time in the Market more important then timing the Market.
There are two investors , Karan & Kamal, both are 41 years of age and have done identical inv...
20.09.2020
Beware : In Investing , averages can drown you.
The biggest misconception that Mutual Fund Investors do is looking at the Mutual fund fact-sheets...
20.09.2020
Importance of Emergency Funds
One of the tenets of good investing is to look at investing for the long term esp investments in...
20.09.2020
Are you framing the question, as per the answer you needed to hear ?
The normal rule is we answer as per the questions raised. However sometimes we are also adept at...
20.09.2020
Multicap Funds, a source of multiple interpretations?
Last week end SEBI announced a small clarification on how the portfolio construct should be in Mu...
20.09.2020
ICARUS PARADOX
The story of Icarus is one of those legends of Greek mythology that fascinates audiences especial...
20.09.2020
How much should one invest in Equity?
Let me explain, the 100 is meant to indicate the human lifespan, so this form of investment alloc...
20.09.2020
CIRCA 2030 : BACK TO THE FUTURE.
Diary log 1st April 2030, Got up to a glorious day, had an early shower and got on to my self dri...
20.09.2020
“Mahatma on Resistance & Persistence”
On the eve of Gandhi Jayanthi, it is nice to imbibe a little bit of the Mahatma in all of us and...
20.09.2020
Pain & Gain
The entire purpose of a human’s life can be summed in the simplest words that of seeking th...
20.09.2020
A Matter of Bond
SEBI has recently announced that AT1 bonds will be available for a minimum investment of Rs 1 cro...
20.09.2020
Risk & Uncertainty
As Investors that invest our money we are well aware that our investments are exposed to both Ris...
20.09.2020
What’s in a Label ? Examining SEBI’s new Risk Classification of Funds
Mutual Funds are subject to market risks, please read the scheme related offer documents before i...
20.09.2020
Rational Investors, Irrational Actions
The normal expectation is that investors make investment with their best interests in mind and th...
20.09.2020
Why ESG investing is good for your ECG (Heart)
ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing refers to a class of inv...
20.09.2020
Three steps to building a profitable portfolio
I was at a friend's place over dinner last week, while chatting he introduced me to his son who h...
20.09.2020
Liquid Plus Funds Vs Savings Bank
There seems to be a popular perception that Liquid Funds / Liquid Plus funds are instruments for...
20.09.2020
Not All Swans are White
All swans are white in colour, we know that for millennia this has been the fact including in fai...
20.09.2020
Pharma Funds : Panacea for your investment woes
Pharma funds have had a phenomenal run in the past 2 years plus, while the sector was terribly un...
20.09.2020
Bicycle Shed effect in Investing
Friends sometime back I was reading an article in Business world written by Prakash Iyer, a fanta...
20.09.2020
It's time for new Beginnings , let's be flexible
It’s the time for change and new beginnings, the United States of America, has a new Team i...
20.09.2020
Is your Portfolio poised to welcome Lakshmi(Wealth) this Diwali?
Diwali is celebrated as a festival of lights. It symbolizes many things in many cultures across I...
20.09.2020
No Country for Old Men
It has been just over a day since Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) has been placed under an RBI supervise...
20.09.2020
Zohnerism & it's effects on investing
If you have got back from a busy day at office and switched on TV on 23rd March 2020, you would h...
20.09.2020
LEARN TO ENJOY THE ROLLER COASTER RIDE
I am sure we have all been through roller coaster rides in our childhood. Some of the giant Rolle...
20.09.2020
Three Principles of Successful Investing
Benjamin Graham is known as the father of Value Investing and the guru of Warren Buffett. Benjami...
20.09.2020
Investment Managers : Historians or Soothsayer ?
As investment managers, a lot of us are conditioned to considering data and studying patterns esp...
20.09.2020
Living a life without compromises
Mr Oberoi is a 72 year young at heart investor at Finsherpa. He h...
20.09.2020
What is in a Thought ?
Quite a lot apparently.
We all get millions of thoughts everyday, some good o...
20.09.2020
No Resolutions, Only RRR
A New year is a very special time, externally it marks the completio...
20.09.2020
Attitude of Gratitude
Friends, it is that time of the year when all of us in India are spe...
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