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Making money from calamities – or the absence of it!!!!

The rich have a habit of high-stake gambles for making money. This has demonstrated itself over time, many times. Be it buying and storing cigars – high value hand crafted Havana’s, or wine from select vineyards with known pedigree or art or watches or pens. Of course, all of the highest quality...
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Where do investors go wrong?

The US-Israel-Iran war started some 6 odd weeks back, on the 28th of February. It was a lovely morning. Suddenly this monster which we had all imagined we had buried some 5 months prior to that, resurfaced. Although a large number were sure it was coming but the scale was a lot more than they [&hell...
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Should I quit the markets now

In wars, there is nothing right. Only what is left!!! As I sit down to write this article, the clouds have gotten darker and definitely more ominous. But for those who are in the capital markets as well as everyone who is saving and investing, the situation is definitely more than alarming. The cons...
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2026: WHAT THE YEAR HOLDS FOR US

2025 Played out pretty much as I had thought it would. Flatish for the equity markets across the capitalisation band except small caps and an unexpected rally in precious metals. But was there a silver lining? You bet!! Inspite of a lot of money going out of the markets via the foreigner investors r...
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Should we be invested in Small Caps and Midcaps?????

There is a fair amount of “garam hawa” blowing on how the small cap segment specifically and maybe the mid cap segment too could be under “extra stress” and maybe in the next decade or so there is no upside possible. This has led to a clamour amongst investors that exposures in these two cat...
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Direct Mode of Investment is DUMB!

Date First Published: January 18, 2018   The retailer is always seen as the money making Shylock, who has no scruples as long as it makes money FOR HIM – irrespective of businesses or products. Just think of the vegetable seller in times of onion crisis (which happens with a twice a year regu...
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The Rapid Rise of Interest Rates

Date first published: August 29, 2018 So, the mandarins in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) met and took a decision on the interest rates. And the decision was to raise interest rates. Base interest rates are of two kinds – the Repo and the Reverse Repo. The Repo is the interest rate charged by [&h...
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The Biggest Money Managers. The Biggest Money Management Cities.

Money surely makes the world go around. And this is clear from the way the lot of us keep on chasing it through every hour of the day and night that we live. But who are the biggest money managers in the world and to put an interesting twist, which are the specialist money management […]...
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The Current Account Deficit. Is it important any more for us?

We all keep on hearing of the Current Account Deficit close to budget time and then sometimes when we switch on the business channel. Most of us know what it is – a measurement of a country’s trade where the value of the goods and services it imports exceeds the value of the products it export...
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