All of us are regularly making decisions of varying degree of importance, for most part of our lives. This may include serious ones like how to improve sales in your company, buying a new house, evaluating a new job etc to day to day ones like which route to take, which restaurant for dinner etc. While … Continue reading Why the odds are against you when it comes to good financial advice
In our previous two posts, we had covered in detail, the two key factors to evaluate when investing in equities. In case you haven't read them, do take some time out to read them here - Link 1 Link 2 Now for those who don't have the time and would like a "no-nonsense" summary of those posts, hang … Continue reading Equity Investing – Just 2 things to remember
In the last post (Link), we had discussed on how equity returns are driven by earnings growth and valuations. We had further detailed on how to evaluate earnings growth. In this post we will move to the second part of the equation - Valuations. Let's start with a basic question - How do you put … Continue reading A layman’s guide to equity valuations
When investing in equities, the most common question is "what returns will I get?". As seen in the earlier post (Link), equity returns are extremely volatile in the short run (sample this- the 1Y returns for Sensex has ranged from 256% to -56%) and tend to become less volatile with increasing time frame. In order to have … Continue reading Equities – dismantling the returns !!
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 !!
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