Category: Asset Allocation
Financial mis-selling is a term that is common these days to indicate selling of financial products which are not suitable for a customer. For example, when some one offers to sell a 60 year old client a 20 year money back policy, he is plainly mis-selling a product that may not be suitable for the client. Today’s Economic Times carries...
Financial Advisory business is a big business outside India and when one says outside India, its specifically meant in US / Europe. They provide detailed personalized advise to their clients on the kind of investments that need to be done. But personalized advisory is expensive and hence most advisers take on client accounts only above a certain net-worth. The Private Wealth...
For quite sometime, fund managers in unison claim that the singular important reason for one to be invested in equity is that historically they have provided around 17% CAGR without at the same time telling you that the data for the starting years (especially from 1979 to 1986) is highly suspect. Debashis Basu of Moneylifers had written a wonderful article...
I am a sucker for quality writing and twitter has exposed me (and anyone interested) to a host of writers who are able to produce writing of a quality that is seldom available (and much of this is actually free, think about that). Just this morning, one of the bloggers I never miss to read tweeted this People in...
For years, any investor who wished to invest in the markets without having to do a lot of homework, the easy option was to invest in one of the several mutual funds and sit tight. The basic concept here being that the fund manager has a certain expertise and hence will be able to generate good returns on the pool...
Good friend, Nooresh has recorded a presentation where he showcases as to how a low RSI has more or less meant a sharp move on the higher side in the coming days. While his presentation (you can check it out here) provides us with visual evidence, I wanted to see how this would translate if I left out the chart...
Today was a record breaking day in many aspects. The opening gap down for instance, we last saw something bigger way back in 2007. The net change for the day was a 3.5 standard deviation of daily returns, something we last saw in 2008. Not a single Nifty stock ended in positive territory, not even defensive stocks which got hit...
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