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

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

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

Who really pays for India? It's not who you think

Why the '2-3 per cent pay all the tax' argument gets the maths wrong

Growth that goes nowhere

Why every growing company isn't making its shareholders richer