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
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
The Need: A place to gather for like-minded Indian investors Online forums or communities are great places where you could discuss interesting topics, talk to experts, clear your doubts, and gather valuable information on any subject. I have been longing for a while to become a member of one such good value investors’ forum in … Read more
Preface As a sensible stock market investor, the first and foremost thing you need to do before investing in any company is to read its annual reports. Preferably, it has to be for the last economic cycle, i.e., the past 10 years, or the least the past 5 years. By the way, an annual report … Read more
Warren Buffett shares his experiences and thoughts as an investor in his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and often in his public appearances. His nuggets of elementary wisdom are indeed hard and fast rules to be adopted by any youngster aspiring to get rich over time. I regret for having not been able to … Read more
Preface Historically, stocks delivered superior returns over any other asset class. Any financial adviser will advise you to allocate a significant portion of your money into stocks citing the aforesaid statistic. But how and why? Why stocks as an asset class performed well over the long term than any other investment type? What is the … Read more