"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong" - Warren Buffett The two most celebrated festivals of Hindu culture – Diwali & Holi, shows us the way how to lead better and healthier life. For Diwali we cleanse our home and surroundings and for Holi we purify our home & surroundings on ‘Holika Dahan’ and then splash the new colours of life on ‘Dulhandi’, the following day. The colours of bond, trust and friendship among our fraternity who stand by us at all times – good or not so good. Coincidentally Diwali comes midway the financial year and Holi comes towards the close of it. What we do to cleanse and purify our physical and spiritual life, the same need to be applied to our portfolio for a financially healthy life. While midway the financial year we should scan our portfolio for cleansing, we should purify it and splash it with new colours towards the close of the year. Purifying and splashing new...

A.     SEBI raids offices and locations of Quant Mutual Fund suspecting front running in its schemes. B.   Grow an online mutual fund transaction platform for direct investors, committing fraud with its investor. Since yesterday morning these two news are making headlines across electronic and social media channels. Investors are worried how safe are their investments and what should they do now. We have received dozens of calls seeking our views on these news and action points. Lets discuss them one by one and likely impact on your investments. A.     SEBI raids Quant Mutual Fund Offices – Quant mutual fund has grown by over 1000 times in last seven odd years from the time they took over Escorts Mutual Fund in 2018. Quant’s assets under management (AUM) stand at over 93,000 crores. Quant practices momentum strategy very aggressively and have been quite successful over last 3-4 years. Peers in most categories lagged performance by a decent margi...

" The influence on stock markets are so numerous and so complex that no person has ever been able to predict the trend of stock prices with consistent success. – Sir John Templeton" India is all set to participate in fourth phase of parliament elections. While all political alliances are claiming success, capital markets seem to be thinking otherwise. This is the general perception now-a-days. Elections will be over in next three weeks and in just 23 days from now on 4 th of June we will have absolute clarity as to who is forming the government. Till then let’s analyse the probable scenarios that can emerge from the elctions and their likely impact on the economy and the stock markets: A.     BJP wins with thumping majority – It will continue the ongoing economic policies with increased pace and vigour which should bode well for the economy and the markets. Additionally it can take some debatable decisions that may cause unrest in certain sections of the society, ...

"The market does not trade upon what everybody knows, but upon what those with the best information can foresee" – William Hamilton Over last few days we saw friends observing Lent, Ramadan & Navratri. Today we are celebrating Ram Navami & couple of days later we will be celebrating Mahavir Jayanti. If something common can be drawn from all these is the most essential virtue of surviving and thriving in this world which is – Patience & Preservance. Be it observing fast during Navratri, Lent or Ramadan or life of Lord Ram or Lord Mahavir Jain – they all teaches us how patience & preservance penultimate in Nirvana. We all are working to survive, thrive and ultimately achieve the financial freedom or Financial Nirvana. And to achieve this nirvana we are investing in market related investment products. While in the long run most market linked investments achieve their true value but in short term it’s market prices are determined by many forces, some of which ...

India is a land of Festivals. Traditionally India had been an agrarian society and had prospered immensely on agriculture. Prosperity brought celebration in our lives along with responsibility. Sense of responsibility towards our fellow beings in the society including non-humans reflects in our festivals and in our rituals.   One such festival that evokes responsibility among Indians and especially Hindus is “Raksha Bandhan”. In its most popular interpretation – on this day brothers reassure and promise to protect all interests of their sisters and against all evils in their sister’s lives. On this Raksha Bandhan, let this promise be not restricted to some gifts and a promise to protect them physically but expand its scope, both in terms of relation and scope of protection. This year include all those people who are dependent on you and provide them your umbrella of protection. They could be your parents, your siblings, children, life partner, employees and any other. Scope of ...