Investments

News of a continual fall in the rupee, fiscal deficit, economic recession and the resultant fall in the stock markets continue to hog headlines in all business newspapers nowadays. Investors suffer from an information overload coming from the print and electronic mediums which paint a dismal picture. It is thus natural for investors to press the panic button and sell their shares or discontinue their equity mutual fund SIPs in a jiffy. This knee jerk reaction often reminds me of a contrarian concept of buying at maximum pessimism. Aptly quoted by legendary global investor Sir John Templeton, it states: Bull […]

The good thing about notching up the years in your own field of expertise is that you are considered to be somewhat of an expert and members of the media start calling you asking for your opinions on various issues. The downer is that the issues are the same and you tend to repeat what you said to some other publication a few months or a year ago. One favourite exercise of a lot of financial publications is to ask during the start of a year what investment strategies they have for their clients for this year. Recently I was […]