The great investor theory

History has the Great Man theory, and likewise, the field of investment can have the Great Investor theory. But can there be a great investor, or can anyone become one by following trends?

Buying the fund house

Judging listed fund houses by the metric that matters most

Retirement's biggest risk is an empty afternoon

You spent 35 years learning not to react. Then you retire with time, a corpus and a phone, and the habit that built the money starts working against it.

The three-year wait

A four-test method for judging funds still finding their feet

The Premium My Father Sold

A shortage explains why a premium can exist, but the crowd's behaviour explains why it reaches 80 per cent in just a few days

A Rs 10 fund may look cheap. It isn't: NAV illusion decoded

Why the NAV of a mutual fund doesn't indicate its price and what you should actually pay attention to