For Whom Wealth Matters
January 28, 2016 6 Comments
“I care deeply about making money. I want to know I’m not losing it…. The most important thing for me is that defence is ten times more important than offense… You have to be very focused on the downside at all times.” – Paul Tudor Jones
If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started- and that takes something you can never get back: time.
March 10, 2013 6 Comments
If you have ever wondered why there are so many financial websites and blogs on the internet,here’s your answer.The fact that in the real world too, the financial services sector is growing at a breakneck speed helps in its own way.
June 11, 2011
Mr. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, combines diverse skills as a equity trader, visionary investor and incubator of new businesses through private equity.He is the first dollar billionaire from India to have made all his money by investing–primarily in stocks.Converting Rs 5000 to a billion dollars is no mean feat.Moreover since he deals exclusively in Indian stocks and often in publicly traded companies, whose shares we all have access to,it’s well worth spending time learning how to invest one’s way to wealth from him.
Firstly,Rakesh believes that the choice of asset class is important . As he says”If you bought gold in 1970 and sold it in 1980, you bought the Nikkei Index in 1980 and sold it in 1989 and then bought the NASDAQ [till before the dot-com bust], you would have made 33% compounded returns in three decades.”Personally, under the guidance of Mr Radhakrishna Damani, he made a lot of money shorting stocks at the time of the Harshad Mehta scam post 1992.As he says,”My decision to aggressively invest in the asset class of Indian equities at the right time was a very important determinant of my success.”As Rakesh believes that the mother of all bull runs is still to happen in India ,for people like us,sticking to Indian securities as an asset class might not be such a bad idea! Read more of this post
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