May 25, 2014

Evaluating Stock Investing Performance

ICICI Direct has a very good tool for you to analyze how you perform with your stock investing.  While we constantly engage in the buys and sells, in our mind we over weigh our profits and ignore and try to forget our losses thereby making us overconfident on our abilities.  Having such a tool helps you to sit back and take notice of whether the activity you engage in is a fruitful one or you would have been better off if you invested in Fixed Deposit or give it to some professional money manager.  My goal is to make a decent return of over 15% per annum over long term. 

May 11, 2014

Warning Signs To Look For In Annual Reports

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Warning Signs serve a very important role in our lives.  They caution is in advance about the imminent dangers if we do not follow the guidelines or rules. We come across warning signs everywhere and they provide the information through signs so you immediately recognize them and take appropriate precautions.  So, what does this have to do anything with investing?  Just like any other activity investing is also filled with lot of dangers for the reckless investor.
Corporate governance is still a big concern in India and it is found to be lacking in both small as well as large companies.