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Retirement planning: Why costs, asset allocation, and compounding matter more than chasing returnsA status match essentially allows one loyalty programme to recognise your credentials from another. Instead of spending 50 nights at a hote...- Mutual fund returns: Why average return can mislead you about your actual wealthTwo funds, both averaging 5%. One left you Rs.11,000 richer. Here’s why
- Daily vs weekly vs monthly SIP: Does investing more frequently create more wealth?A comparative study of daily, weekly, and monthly SIPs across 5 active equity fund categories and 5 time horizons offers a clear answer.
- The cookie jar: Rs. 403 crore of expected losses simply disappeared, and turned into profit. Nobody had earned a rupeeA provision is simply management's estimate of a future cost the company can already see coming: Repairs under warranty, a lawsuit it might...
- Warren Buffett and IBM: Praying the stock price goes nowhere. The maths explains whyHe is not being clever. He does the arithmetic and shows you exactly how much a falling price would be worth to him. Then he turns on the a...
- Why are Registered Investment Advisers so rare in India? The big reason may surprise investorsIn the Indian investment landscape, a stark difference exists between mutual fund distributors who earn commissions and fee-only advisors w...
- Buffett asks shareholders to ignore his profit figure. Then explains how he could fake itThe rule is simple and almost nobody thinks about it. When a business sours, the accounts mark it down. When a business thrives, the accoun...
- Convert, split, pledge: How share capital is used as a tool and trick to manipulateA tiny number of shares can sometimes set the "price" for the entire company. And a price built on almost no real trading is exactly the ki...
- The most expensive half-sentence in market history, and Warren Buffett wrote the other halfHe wrote it as a caution. Somebody published just one half of it. A great many investors acted on the half they were shown. Warren Buffett ...
- ETMarkets Management Talk | SIS bets on healthcare, BFSI, manufacturing for next leg of security growth: Rituraj SinhaFor SIS, this transition is opening up a fresh growth opportunity across sectors such as healthcare, BFSI, manufacturing, logistics, e-comm...
- Warren Buffett, Isaac Newton and the fourth law of moneySomewhere between what your investments earn and what you actually keep, a portion goes missing every year. It is charged by nobody you cou...
- Warren Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway would be worth half without this company – although it kept shrinkingWarren Buffett once told his shareholders that without one particular acquisition, Berkshire Hathaway “would be lucky to be worth half of w...
- Is borrowing money to invest in IPOs worth it? Know what it costs, its hidden risks before going for financing for NSE, Jio, SBI MF IPOsIndia's primary market anticipates a busy season with major IPOs approaching. Many investors are borrowing funds to maximize their applicat...
- Devil is in the footnotes: RBI's Financial Stability Report is transparent, yet leaves some key questions unansweredThe RBI's latest financial stability report highlights a noteworthy level of transparency regarding significant economic metrics. There’s a...
- The hidden flaw in average returns: Why investors who rely only on the mean risk are making bad decisionsInvestors often rely on average returns, but this can be misleading. Understanding the mean, median, and mode offers a clearer picture of i...
- Cut by a thousand degrees: Why educational credentials in Bihar continue to fail to build much-required real human capitalPre-election rallies, as always, revolved around employment guarantees, welfare schemes and caste arithmetic. Yet, the real question went u...
- Samir Arora on why one needs to be flexible in a changing market“Stanley Druckenmiller who is a genuine hero in the investing world with 30% per annum returns over 30 years and his own net worth being mo...
- How to calculate your investment returns using this MS-Excel toolGeometric mean scores over arithmetic mean as it takes into account the effect of volatility. The GEOMEAN function helps you to calculate t...
- How to calculate weighted average returns using MS ExcelA combination of MS Excel functions proves effective when diverse amounts are invested across options.
- SIP is an investing habit that can help you gain. Here's howSIPs do the job because investing becomes a habit. It gets ingrained in your behaviour patterns.
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