The mega initial public offering or let’s call it the mother of all IPOs is almost here. The Life Insurance Corporation of India or LIC IPO 2022 is expected to open in the next few weeks. Some of the readers…
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No. Please don’t worry about this too much. This is temporary. If you have been investing in international funds, you would have heard the news about the curbs on international funds stopping them from investing abroad. Update - The international…
Read More Restrictions on International Funds (RBI SEBI Limit 2022) – Should you Worry?
This will be a very short post. Here is a list of Nifty50 returns during the last 10 years. 2012: +27.7% 2013: +6.8% 2014: +31.4% 2015: -4.1% 2016: +3.0% 2017: +28.6% 2018: +3.2% 2019: +12.0% 2020: +14.9% 2021: +24.1% I…
Read More Just one loss in last 10 Years – Nifty 2011 to 2021
Asset Allocation Quilt 2021 for Indian markets. I came across this interesting depiction of asset class performance chart in a tweet (link). Have a look at the below quilt and spend some time studying it. The table (or quilt) above…
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Many equate equity investing with gambling. And being in equity markets for more than one and a half decades, I don’t like this idea one bit. But due to this wrong comparison, people don’t give equities the importance it deserves.…
What happens when you invest in Nifty50 and stay invested for 5 years? What happens when you invest in Nifty50 and stay invested for 7 years? For most people, the definition of long term is around 5 to 7 years.…
Read More 5 and 7 years Nifty50 Returns (Detailed Analysis 2021 with 8000+ data points)
Just yesterday, RBI informed us that India’s inflation is around 5.59%. To be honest, that doesn’t sound like a nightmare (that people in Zimbabwe have gone through - read here). But when you compare it with the ever-so-safe bank FD…
When we Indians start earning for the first time, the first brush with savings happens via EPF deductions. Your salary is automatically deducted and some amount goes towards your EPF corpus. Then comes the first tax-saving season. When we wake…
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Can Nifty reach 1 lakh? Ofcourse it can. Currently, it is around 16,500. Ofcourse there are many other smaller targets like Nifty@20,000 and Nifty@25,000 and Nifty@50,000 and Nifty@75,000 and then comes Nifty@100000. I recently heard a noted investor of India…
Read More Nifty at 1 lakh: By when will Nifty50 reach 100000?
Recently, I was talking to a relative about how he managed money when I realized that despite being young, he was somehow not too convinced about the potential of equity for long-term wealth creation. So I thought I will try…
Read More Power of Equity – Simple example of Wealth Creation
If you invest in direct stocks or mutual funds, I am sure you would have received tons of unsolicited bulk SMS with texts like hot stock tip, next multibagger stock pick, sure-shot bet, double your money in 15 days, insider…
Read More Stock Tip Fraud: How Penny Stock Rigging happens in India?
Note – This is a guest post by Ajay. He has previously written on this topic (links in later part of the post) and now updates his thoughts on the basis of 2021 data. Ajay has also authored other interesting…
Read More Mutual Funds Vs Real Estate: Which is better for Investing in India? (2021 Update)
How to earn regular income from high dividend stocks? For many, this is a dream. To have a large enough portfolio of stocks and live happily ever after on dividend income. I love dividends too. In fact, it was dividends…
We all know Nifty 50 index constituents are regularly updated (once every 6 months, see details here). Over a period of time, these small occasional changes have led to a big change in Nifty. So the Nifty50 of the year…
Read More Nifty 50 Sector Weight Changes Over the Years (2000-2021)
Recently, there was a lot of noise on social channels about the rise in the number of unicorns from India ("Unicorn" is a term used to describe a startup company with a value of more than $1 billion). Here is…
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