by Rajat Sharma | Jan 24, 2014 | debt, equity, stocks |
There are increasing numbers of Indian companies which are finding themselves in a debt trap, with their entire operating profits not sufficient to meet their finance charges. Worst still, a lot of these companies have negative operating profits and a huge interest...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 20, 2014 | equity, finance, investment |
There Seems to be an amazing rush to grow money by investing in Fixed Deposits (FD) and other fixed income schemes. Someone recently asked me about the best safe investment option for the future and after some discussion I realized what he really wanted to know was...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 17, 2014 | behavioural finance, equity, finance, investment |
Market participants and financial media regularly classify stock purchase decisions based on the time horizon or holding period of the investor (i.e. how long can the investor do away with his money and put it in stocks). This classification is usually styled as long...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 15, 2014 | Consulting, debt, equity |
To ascertain the financial health of a company, amongst other things, it is important to analyze the capital structure of the company to understand how much of borrowed money does the company operate with. One of the most important financial indicator and which gets...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 13, 2014 | equity, trading |
Over the past 200+ years (and perhaps more) there have been many instances of dramatic rise and fall in the prices of things that are traded. At times this is market driven and prices rise and fall purely based on demand and supply; while on others, the price is made...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 10, 2014 | equity, investment, stocks |
Since I get this asked a lot, I thought I’ll write a post on this topic. Note: I will assume that long term is 3+ years with some of the investments being purchased for a much longer period (read indefinitely). The problem with equity investing is that the line...
