Pick The Best Investing Path   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Feb 05, 2010
Investors are being bombarded with all kinds of contradictory news. For them, it is important to ignore all of that and instead, focus on making the right investment

Pitfalls of Market Cycles   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Feb 01, 2010
Investors ably micro-manage their stock and fund holdings, but they fail when they try to chart the wider trends

A Less Taxing Time   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 30, 2010
The tax-saving exercise must be part of a general investment plan

Persistence Dividend   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 29, 2010
Investing continuously through the boom and bust period is crucial for investors

The Insurance Vacuum   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 27, 2010
Indians are still under-insured even though it has been a decade since the sector has been opened up and insurers are not really helping

Fund Size Does Not Matter   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 25, 2010
The size of a fund is not important, as far as investors should be concerned. They should instead concentrate on its performance

Landmark Advance For UTI MF   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 25, 2010
With T. Rowe Price becoming the largest shareholder in UTI MF the Indian entity will now fit normally into the industry

Fear Rules Over Motivation   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 22, 2010
Behavioural economics shows that employees respond better to loss-avoidance strategies than motivational approaches. It is crucial to equity investment too

The Small-Cap Advantage   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 19, 2010
Just a handful of smaller companies make it big, countless others fall by the wayside, or toil forever in relative obscurity

The Dividend Drawback   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 18, 2010
The habit of the mutual fund industry to pay dividends takes undue advantage of investors' shallow knowledge

An Ocean of Money   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 14, 2010
The near-zero interest rates in the U.S. may have an unwelcome impact on Indian stock markets

Cementing Satyam-Like Scam Cycle   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 13, 2010
If the recent past is anything to go by, then the authorities have done nothing to prevent more such frauds from being committed on investors

A Doubters' Guide to Power Investing   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 11, 2010
Being a sceptic and backing that up with mathematical abilities can make for a better investing experience

Rebuff Mid-Cap Bombast   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 09, 2010
The new mantra in the markets, for most analysts, revolves around mid-caps. But investors need to ignore that talk as it promotes risky behaviour

The 2010 IPO Adversity   Dhirendra   Kumar |  Jan 07, 2010
The year has a huge IPO cache in the pipeline, but investors need to understand that they have nothing much to offer in terms of gains