How will you decide the risk factor while making an Investment decision? Following are three components of risk. Risk Tolerance = Risk you are comfortable with. Risk Capacity = Risk you can afford to take. Risk Required = Risk you are required to take to achieve your goal in given time. Drop us a line, […]
Live conferences are a different way to learn and expand our consciousness, perspectives, and knowledge base on subjects which then inform our career and life decisions. I attended one such event last Friday in Mumbai and met India’s top fund managers to understand their outlook on the capital markets and opportunities for investors going forward. […]
Everyone is curious to know how 2014 will span for investments. Its totally wrong to predict about markets or the economy. Lets look at whats happening and gauge what will be in store for 2014. There has been a positive environment for stocks in general worldwide. Inflation pressures are generally falling(in India too onion prices […]
Tapering is just postponed. Just 24 hours ago, all eyes were waiting for the US Fed announcement on whether the Fed will announce the reduction in their asset purchase program which could lead to high volatility across the world financial markets. The Fed has announced that it will look at this sometime in December.While the […]
Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd (HUDCO) will be issuing tax free bonds from 17th September. HUDCO is a fully owned government company which enjoys healthy finances and business model. Hence these bonds are regarded as safe. Every year select few companies are selected to issue Tax Free Bonds. The Interest rate scenario changes periodically, […]
We had been invited by one of the big consulting corporate to take a session on importance of managing money for their employees. Ravi made a case for why one should be managing earning by giving many anecdotes and example. Audience was wonderful, very young enthusiastic crowd. We got very good response in attendance, house […]
ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has launched a new fund ‘Global Stable Equity Fund’ which is currently open for subscription. The fund is a feeder fund and is invested into the parent fund ‘Nordea Global Stable Equity Fund’. Nordea is a investment management company in Europe. Nordea manages about 200 billion Euros. By investing in Global […]
Let’s take a quick look at what’s happening and the outlook for the medium term: US economy is doing well. We have been saying this since early 2012. The last 4 years there has been enormous amount of credit in the system because of central banks easy monetary policies. The QE (Quantitative Easing) has pushed […]
We recently met Geoff Lewis, global market strategist at JP MorgaRavi_GeoffLewisn. Here are some takeaways: Strong correction in high yield bonds after announcement from the Fed about tapering of QE. Less correction in equities. Nothing fundamentally has changed. The sequence of Fed’s exit plan. Some investors think the QE will stop from this Sept while […]
Property is so powerful that it sucks all the money that one has. relocate home Desire to own more real estate than required is a sure recipe to invite financial stress at the cost of pedaling all other aspirations. You climb the uphill mountain with the big baggage of mortgage. You stop all on going […]