In our last post, we understood that investing in equities is a reasonable proxy to entrepreneurship as you get to have part ownership in a business. So intuitively entrepreneurs on an average should have made reasonably good returns over the long run, and as a corollary, equity investors should have also made good returns in … Continue reading Equity Investing – Importance of Time !!
Out of all asset classes, Equities (stocks) are unfortunately the most misunderstood. My mom thinks it’s gambling, my friends think it’s something which lets you make money without working hard and unfortunately many of them who did try their hand at equities lost money and have vowed never to get back into this again. The … Continue reading Equity Investing – getting the basics in place
In the earlier article (Gold Returns – Making sense of history), I had discussed on the historical returns from Gold for Indian investors. Now the most important question is what should investors expect from Gold going forward. First and foremost, let me start with an honest submission. It is next to impossible to exactly predict … Continue reading Gold Returns – my futile attempt at predicting the future !!
Out of all the asset classes, Gold is the most difficult one to understand. This is primarily because Gold doesn't provide an underlying cash flow like the other asset classes ( Dividends in Equity, Interest payment in FD and Fixed Income, Rent in Real estate). Hence valuing gold is extremely difficult. However Gold for several … Continue reading Gold Returns – Making sense of history
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