As I keep highlighting in my posts that with each passing day, the investors are finding it difficult to generate double-digit returns from their investment portfolio. In my last post, I shared, Low-Interest Period - How to generate additional returns. After that, I received multiple queries from readers how to generate double-digit returns without substantial risk. Trust me 10% annual return is a psychological barrier for conservative investors. The reason being, long-term return on equity is just 12%. Also, note that returns % referred in this post are after tax. On the contrary, expecting a ... Read More
Demonetisation Scheme – How It Will Impact Your Money Matters
Demonetisation Scheme is a sort of surgical strike on the black money. As a taxpayer, i can say that people should not complain short term pain for the long term gain. There is a lot of uncertainty on how the things will shape up. Let me assure that if you have nothing to hide from income tax department then you need not worry at all. Just relax, take a deep breath and chill. You can deposit cash in hand i.e. currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 once the initial knee-jerk reaction is over. Don't forget to quote your permanent account number. One of my clients called me from Lucknow. He ... Read More
Multibagger Stock – Can an Equity Investor Identify Them In Advance
Multibagger Stock is one the most loosely defined terms in the stock market. In my opinion, a tag of Multibagger Stock is used by so-called "Stock Gurus" or "Stock Market Experts/Analysts" to create a buying interest in the stock. I observed that most of the times, it is a trap to provide an EXIT route to some big operators. Normally, the beginners in the stock market are trapped in such marketing gimmicks. On one of the business channels, one of the stock expert suggest one stock before the market opens. He is well known Stock Market Expert. He will label his recommendation as a multibagger ... Read More
Stock Investor – 11 Golden Rules For Beginners in Stock Market
Being a Stock Investor sounds cool and fashionable for beginners. A typical beginner stock investor is in early 20's fresh out of college. Disposable income is high and on top of it, there is a strong urge to multiply the money. Greed is the biggest PULL factor towards stock market. I discussed greed and fear in detail in my post, Successful Investors - 5 Hidden Secrets to Make Money. In my opinion, Out of 100 so called investors, 80 are Stock Traders and only 20 are Stock Investor in the true sense. The objective of a stock trader is short term investment, book profit, and exit. I am not ... Read More
Financial Investments – 11 Most Important Points to Consider
"Financial Investments are not a child's play" i read it in a book of a very famous investment guru. The term "investment guru" is loosely used in the personal finance space. We have investment gurus of the stock market, real estate, mutual funds, commodities etc. In past as a common investor, i used to get confused whom to follow and who should be ignored. I could not find reliable 360-degree information on financial investments. In India, all the people around us are also investment gurus. Normally an investor decides on Financial Investments based on the feedback from their relatives, ... Read More
Stock Market Crash – The Pain is NOT YET OVER
Yesterday's stock market crash is the beginning of series of crashes as we observed in 2008. Once the FEAR grips the market then Stock Market Crash is inevitable. There is 360-degree selling. The market has convincingly broken the psychological level of 7000. There was simply NO attempt of recovery. From quite long, i am cautioning readers of this blog to EXIT the Market. Some brave hearts are still hopeful. Current P/E levels are 18.75 and it is still expensive considering the poor corporate results. The FII's are emptying their bucket and they are in a quite hurry to do so. The inflows to ... Read More
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