Monthly Archives: June 2012

MUTUAL FUNDS AND NFOs: METHOD IN MADNESS

Almost every one whom I meet these days asks me for one great “stock tip” which could double in one month. If I was as clairvoyant as that, I could have taken a Premature Retirement and relaxed on a beach … Continue reading

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INVESTMENT IN GOLD AND GOLD ETFs

Mukul met me on the golf course and asked me, “I have been buying units of Gold Exchange Traded Funds (Gold ETFs) as an investment. Isn’t it a good idea ?”  

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VALUE INVESTING AND TWO VALUE PICKS

Value Investing as a term,  has its genesis in the teachings of Benjamin  Graham and David Dodd who taught  at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently developed the “value investment” paradigm in their 1934 classic, “Security Analysis”, one of … Continue reading

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WHAT IS SHARE MARKET? PART II

In my first part of this series, I had explained what is a share and how a business evolves. Today I shall discuss the much bandied terms like EPS, PE ratio, Dividend etc. A2Burgers Pvt Ltd commenced their business with … Continue reading

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INSURANCE FOR HOME LOAN

While my series on stock investing continues, I have to digress to talk about something which happened today morning. Vikrant Deshpande walked into my office and thanked me for some advice I gave him yesterday. It saved him Rs 408,338. … Continue reading

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