Your equity portfolio may oscillate by 20% in 2023!

Yes, you read the subject right but…..

With all the ongoing volatility in the stock market, I thought it would be a good time to point out that this is only natural. After two great years of one-sided movement in the stock market (2020-21), investors experienced volatility for the first time during Russia Ukraine war when the Nifty slumped 18% in Mar’22. Continue reading “Your equity portfolio may oscillate by 20% in 2023!”

Do you pay yourself first?

The history of the concept “Pay Yourself First” dates back to almost 100 years back when it was penned down by George Clason in his book called “The Richest Man in Babylon”. It was later reiterated by Robert Kiyosaki in his book, “Rich Dad Poor Dad”. The simple phrase “Pay Yourself First” has made it’s way big in the world of finance, this philosophy is accepted universally and is recognized as the golden rule of personal finance.

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The risk of not taking enough risks

‘Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing’ – Warren Buffet

As human beings, avoiding uncertainties comes naturally to us. We are governed by the need for certain outcomes in almost all aspects of our life & investing is no different. As far as possible, many investors try & avoid taking risks while choosing their investments thereby, completely avoiding equities in their portfolio! But they don’t understand that not taking a certain level of risk is a risk in itself. Continue reading “The risk of not taking enough risks”

Investing for multibagger returns– Direct stocks or mutual funds? Here’s the verdict.

Author’s note:

A lot of our investors lost their hard-earned money by directly investing in stocks like Zomato, Paytm, Policybazar, etc. Even though the benchmarks have recovered but many of the individual stocks are still trading at a deep discount viz-a-viz their all-time highs. We thought of writing an article for such investors who are always in search of the next ‘multibagger’

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