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Publication: Business Standard, Mumbai; Date: December 13, 2009 Beware of investment products that promise the moon. A friend recently asked, “Is there some HDFC Standard Life or ICICI Prudential Insurance single-premium product that will double my money in five years?” Quite a surprising question because insurance companies, even if they are selling unit-linked insurance plans, […]
Publication: Business Standard, New Delhi; Date: Dec 6, 2009; Investment decisions based only on current events can lead to Serious losses. A disciplined approach is better Last week, the headlines of almost all newspapers screamed panic on Dubai’s attempt to reschedule its debt. The event reminded a lot of people of the Lehman collapse in […]
Publication: Business Standard; Date: November 8, 2009 On saturday, gold prices hit yet another high. Should you invest or book profits? The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) made headlines this week when it announced purchase of 200 tonnes of gold valued at Rs 31,490 crore from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Though RBI said the purchase […]
Publication: Business Standard, Mumbay; section Product Analysis; Date September 13, 2009 Child insurance policies on offer are still inferior to pure term policies. It’s hard to miss the Religare Star Child Plan advertisement on television, where a child is playing a guitar like a rock star. Like most life insurance commercials, this one also hits […]
Publication: Business Standard, Mumbai; Date: Sep 6, 2009; Section: Markets & Investing; Non-convertible debentures have some real benefits over fixed deposits. The spate of interest rate cuts in the past several months has left fixed income investors with very few options. Rates offered for the traditional favourite, bank fixed deposits, have been hovering in the […]
Publication: Business Standard; Date: Aug 9, 2009; Section: Marketing & Investing Why a well-managed and diversified fund will always beat a benchmark. A lot has been written about index funds in the past two years, with most proponents recommending it as a key component in a portfolio. The overall argument being that most diversified equity funds […]
Publication: Business Standard, Mumbai; Date: 2 August 2009; Section: Markets & Investing; While the government is offering subsidy and builders are constructing affordable houses, one should still wait. Earlier this week, the headlines of most newspapers talked about the finance minister’s measures to pump the housing sector. For the aam aadmi, the big announcement was the one on a […]
Publication : Business Standard, Date: July 19, 2009 Why timing your buys doesn’t matter beyond the short term After the Budget, the markets went down from 14,900 to around 13,400 in the next few days. Then there was a sudden turnaround and the markets are once again back to around 14,300. There are several reasons […]
Publication: Business Standard, Mumbai; Date: July 12, 2009; On the global front, oil prices and commodities, including gold, corrected sharply on fears of lower demand and weak global cues. There is no apparent recovery in sight in the short term for most developed markets and this is once again putting pressure on equity markets worldwide. With the […]
Publication: Business Standard, New Delhi; Date: June 21, 2009; Signals to look for before deciding when to enter, lie low or get out of stock markets. Cautious Bull, Optimistic Bull, Fearful Bear are some of the terms thrown at equity investors in the past several weeks. Most investors are waiting on the sidelines, mulling whether […]