Preventive Health Checkups: What Is in It for You as an Investor?

Preface Birthday and New Year’s Day are silent reminders that you have aged by one more year. I don’t celebrate my birthdays as I am sad about getting aged. However, I do undergo a preventive health checkup every year around my birthday ever since I am past 40. Of course, New Year’s Day is for … Read more

Value Investing Know-How: When is the Right Time to Sell a Share?

As an investor, you come across plenty of information that value investing is nothing but buying a stock with a margin of safety at a deep discount to its value. However, what you are not being told is when is the right time to sell a share that you once found attractive and bought for … Read more

eBay India Lesson: Not All E-Commerce Sites Are Worth Investing!

Preface Investing in a budding e-commerce business seems to be a good idea and should turn out to be a multi-bagger. However, there is a caveat. You have to do your due diligence before investing; first as a customer, then as a stock analyst. Let me explain this with relation to my online shopping experience … Read more

How You Are Losing Money by Investing in Fixed Deposits of Banks?

Investments in fixed deposits of banks are widely considered as the wise and the safest option to park your money. Particularly, the nationalized banks. The supporting reasons include easy liquidity, sovereign guarantee, easy availability of loans on pledging the FD receipts, etc. However, do you really earn the 9% or whatever interest offered by the … Read more

Evolving Retailing Landscape: What’s in It for Me as an Investor?

Preface Last fortnight my smartphone got corrupt. Despite rooting and reinstallation of its operating system several times, it became useless with something wrong with its hardware. Thus far it resisted a lot of hard times; falling from heights and into the water – value for money! However, this time the cost of repair seemed to … Read more