The Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) is a frequently mentioned rate in investment analysis. When you hold investments for a number of years, in some years the rates are higher than in other years. The rates keep changing from year-to–year. The CAGR smoothens a number of annual rates that an investment may give over a… Continue reading What is CAGR? How should it be used in investment decision-making?
Explain the fall in NAVs and exit strategies to your customers Identify the customers in your list who have made mutual fund or ULIP or share investment. Explain to them how to decide whether to remain invested in the MF or ULIP or share. In this article I give you a scientific way of going… Continue reading Corona Strategy – 2
The share market is crashing and we do not know when it will stop crashing. In the recent past the BSE SENSEX crashed from a peak of about 41000 to 27000, currently. This represents a fall of about 34 %. The SENSEX is at approximately 65 % of what it was in February, 2020. Continue… Continue reading What happens to MF Investments Now?
I am reproducing a typical advice by a financial advisor below. This appeared in Mint 27 February 2020. A Question Question by a reader of the newspaper: Currently my net worth is around Rs. 5 lakhs. I invest Rs. 3,000 each in Canara Robeco Emerging Equities, Aditya Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity, Kotak Mahindra Emerging… Continue reading Money Does not Grow on Trees
High risk investments are not suitable for long term needs. The risks of not getting your money for the planned need is very high. Long term needs are ideally met by low risk investments.
There was a time not long ago when the share markets were volatile when the mutual fund sellers advocated that investors should switch to debt mutual funds claiming that debt funds were safe. They sold debt funds as safe investments, till IL&FS defaults hit the market. Suddenly it transpired that many mutual funds had invested… Continue reading Debt Funds Anyone?
