There is a need for people to know about direct plan offered by mutual fund companies. What is the need? In good old days, mutual fund schemes could be sold to investors only through agents and distributors. Reason being, lack of penetration of internet into the Indian households, hence negligible online transactions. But today we…
Residual income method is a unique and a comparatively easier way to estimate intrinsic value of companies. What makes it unique is the factor called “residual income“. I’m a big fan of valuing companies using discounted cash flow method (DCF). Why? Because if done accurately, its computed intrinsic value can be very accurate. But its…
Why I got interested in the concept of Net Asset Value (NAV)? Because it helped me to see my portfolio-building from the eyes of a mutual fund manager. Generally, I build my savings under several heads (like saving#1, saving#2 etc). Overtime, savings keeps accumulating under each head. When it becomes sufficiently large, I use a…
‘Authorised Share Capital’ and ‘Paid Up Share Capital’ are two terms that we as investors must know about. Why? Because changes in the numbers of these metrics can effect our investment returns (read here). Company needs capital to establish its assets and run its operations. From where the company will source its capital? It can…
PEG ratio is a useful valuation metric for stock investors. Potential investors can use it to gauge if a stock is overvalued or undervalued. PEG is a ratio which establishes a correlation between company’s price valuation with its future growth prospects (see here). We are more conversant with the use of P/E ratio (Price to Earnings…
In India we have an investment option called “Post Office Monthly Income Scheme (MIS)”. Among other investment options, PO-MIS can also be considered suitable for investment by retired people. But PO-MIS is not limited for retired people alone. Anyone with age above 18 years can open a PO-MIS account. An account can be open even…
Generally speaking, good news about a company can take its stock price up, and bad news can take the price down. In real world, lots of news keeps floating about companies. Some news are good and some may be bad. Hence the struggle of price moving up or down is happening every second. But what…
Retirement planning is important. Why? Because this is what is going to give us financial independence after we’ve retired from our jobs/work. The planning will ensure the availability of the required funds when it’s time to retire. In India, the majority of service-class retired people depend on annuities to take care of their cash flow…
“What is the need of money management; after all we earn money only to spend it one day”. I was trying to be ironic. But I’m also sure that many will not find my statement ‘wrong‘. Read more about paycheck to paycheck lifestyle. Most of us actually earn money only to support our expenses of…
Sharpe Ratio helps you see if a fund is giving good returns for the risk it takes. A higher ratio usually means the fund is using risk more efficiently than others in the same category. If your fund has a lower Sharpe Ratio than similar funds for long, it may be time to review or exit.
Like long-term investing is a strategy to invest money, ‘rupee cost averaging’ is also an investment strategy to invest money by taking lesser risks. It enables people to eliminate the need to time the market. In rupee cost averaging the investor does not utilize all the funds to buy an asset at a single moment…
Predicting if a stock will go up or down involves checking rising profits (EPS), sales, and big investors’ actions. We can also comparing its P/E ratio to the industry. A lower P/E with growing profits, like for HDFC Bank, suggests a potential rise. Use this stock prediction tool (online).
