As I sit to write my prognosis for the year 2014 I am also looking back at the last two years and how the forecasts went. My view at the height of pessimism at the end of the year 2011 was that the markets would rise by 25% in the year 2012. The forecast turned […]
Read MoreI hope that the first article of profiting from mutual funds was found to be interesting by readers. The purpose of these articles is educational to start with and then in later episodes I will get into evaluating individual schemes and fund houses too. Now as we talked of the last time that there are […]
Read MoreAfter having spent more than 18 years investing in the markets & one and a half decade in the Mutual Fund Industry and having seen the way Mutual Funds are sold and bought I thought that it was important for me to now educate existing and potential investors about investing in Mutual Funds, what kind […]
Read MoreThe rupee and its gyrations have impacted the performance of the economy as well as financial markets significantly over the last several years. Though we might make a case for ignoring the impact on INR movements on the Financial Markets its impact on the real economy cannot be ignored. Under the circumstances, for an economy […]
Read MoreOver the last six months the talk of FED Tapering has created huge volatility in global financial markets; equities, bonds and currencies. The first part of the Tapering talk was clearly an attempt by the US FED to take the bond markets out of euphoric states where it clearly saw that US 10 year bond […]
Read MoreWe have seen a continuous loss of Equity Assets from Mutual Funds since the year 2008. Equity Assets peaked out at a level of around Rs 2,50,000 Crores in Indian Mutual Funds in January 2008. At that time they comprised almost 45% of the total assets of MF’s. The spiral of outflows that started that […]
Read MoreAfter going through the Financial Planning of a large number of people which have been done by various Financial Planners and also having read and watched programmes on the same in Business Papers as well as the Electronic Media I have come across some apparent pitfalls that should be taken into account by investors. The […]
Read MoreNormally I would not write a pure technical article. However as per the analysis techniques that I follow it now seems that Gold and Silver are on the verge of a significant decline. On a fundamental basis also I have been very negative on gold and I do believe that we will see much lower […]
Read MoreThere is a great amount of fascination around the levels of the Sensex and the Nifty. Markets are today near their highs of the year 2008 and the general belief is that the markets are expensive, have moved up too sharply and should correct going forward. Around two months back we saw a series of […]
Read MoreThe US Dollar, being the reserve country of the world has enjoyed a benefit which no other country with a huge current account deficit has enjoyed. Over the last 15 years the Fiscal Position of the US has also deteriorated with the Fiscal Surpluses of the late 1990’s now being converted into a huge deficit. […]
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