Fire drill for your portfolio

Fire drills help everyone be aware of steps to be taken in the event of a fire. Preparation for extreme events is best done when one is able to calmly consider various options and figure out the next steps. Unforeseen events happen, but planning for extreme events will help one think through various scenarios and will […]

To drive or not to drive…

I was catching up with a friend who has been using cabs (OLA, Uber etc.) for his commute and was wondering if he should buy a car instead of using cabs. We did some back of the envelope calculations to look at the economics of the decision. Calculations .. One interesting thing that comes out […]

Markets fluctuate but investors shouldn’t

Download Tamil version of this article published in Vikatan   Markets fluctuate – that is the nature of the markets. As Warren Buffett says “market in the short run is a voting machine and in the long run is a weighing machine”. Short term fluctuations are to be expected. Now that we are going through […]

Hunting & Agriculture vs. Trading & Investing

Hunting is an adrenaline fuelled and adrenaline fuelling activity. Spotting the prey, the chase, and the kill could be really exciting. One should also note that hunting though exciting does not always result in a kill. In jungles the hunter and the hunted need to run faster every day to survive as it is a […]