Shabbir Bhimani

Wanna invest in the right stock at the right price & at the right time.

Guide towards investing on your own

An investor needs to have a basic knowledge of how the stock market works, if he is planning to invest on his or her own. People should have the ability to analyze numbers and filter news of they want to pick stocks by themselves. But if you have the money and don’t know how to pick stocks, you may rather then take help of a mutual fund manager.

80C Tax Saving Mutual Funds

Its high time when every one of us start looking for saving tax and so I thought would make a post here where you can find all the funds where you can invest to save your Tax. This are all Equity based ELSS Funds.

Expectations from the 2009 stock market

The year 2009, for the stock market investors will be a year different from 2008. This New Year 2009 is expected to be a year with two unique trends. The first trend deals with consolidation during the first half and the second trend is about building on that consolidation.

Real Capital

There are businessmen and self employed professionals who would prefer to invest their money into their own business which seems to generate maximum returns in their business or practice. However, one should be aware of the fact that it is risky to put human capital and real capital in the same basket.

Have the right strategy towards your investment goals

When an investor burns his finger, he then come to a conclusion that investing is dangerous and then begins to take a firm decision of not returning towards it. However, within a short time, he loses his patience and then opts for other forms of investment.

Exchange-traded Fund (ETF)

An ETF combines the valuation feature of a mutual fund, which can be purchased or redeemed at the end of each trading day for its NAV, with the trading feature of a stock, which trades throughout the trading day at prices that may be substantially more or less than its net asset value.

Protect your portfolio from market attacks

We have some time or the other, met someone who claimed that their financial portfolio was doing great, until one fine day it wasn’t. All this happens, mainly due to aggressive trading, picking the wrong stock, getting out too early and so on.

Appreciating alternative investing

The most common and traditional form of diversifying one’s portfolio is by diversifying across various asset classes, such as equities, fixed income, real estate, commodities like bullion and crude etc. However, many investors will readily sacrifice this discipline when a particular asset class is faring exceedingly well. As a result, their allocations become distorted.

Mutual funds can ensure a good long-term health of a portfolio

An investor who may like to invest in banking stocks presently will be limited by the number of stocks he can buy. On the other hand, a combination of banking stocks and a banking fund can do wonders both in terms of diversification as well as potential to benefit from the possible rise over a period.

Depend on fund manager for research

Equity investing requires skill both in terms of stock selection and monitoring the progress of the companies included in the portfolio stock prices move to anticipate events as well as reflect the current events.

Investors should think beyond risk free investment plan

Many investors want to play safe and avoid exposing their money to market-related risks. But an overly conservative investing strategy also exposes you to a type of risk which finally leaves you without having enough money in the future.

Beware of your Broker when investing

When I visited Places like Surat / Baroda in Gujarat, I met with some investment guru’s whose portfolio in stock in millions but was just not performing.

Shabbir Bhimani

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