Seven Steps in the Process of Investments
- Anup Bansal
- Jan 13 2013
Step 1 - Establish the investor's return and risk objectives from the current financial status, desired goals, risk questionnaire.Step 2 - Establish the investor's constraints - Liquidity, Time Horizon, Taxes etc.Step 3 - Determine investor's strategy for investments based on the return and risk objectives, constraints, suitability of an asset class and investments, historical data and market expectations.Step 4 - Determine investor's asset allocation that is most appropriate for meeting the return...
"Bucketizing" Your Investments
- Anup Bansal
- Mar 1 2012
"Bucketizing" is not a word that can be found in English dictionaries so let me explain the term. I have coined the term "Bucketizing" for the process of allocating dedicated investments to a particular financial goal. For example, an individual may buy a Child Plan that provides both insurance as well as funds for the child's education when she turns 17 years old. Similarly, there may be dedicated investments for one's retirement plan. Hence, an individual plans by creating "Investment Buckets"...
Volatility is your friend!
- Anup Bansal
- Feb 6 2018
Today the Indian stock market fell by around 1.5% and has fallen by around 4.8% in the last four sessions since the budget. We all are feeling the pain of the downturn and the rise in the volatility. Just to put things in perspective, even after this correction, the Indian equity market has given a gain of 19.3% in the last 1 year and 42.1% in the last two years.What is volatility? It is the day to day unpredictability of markets. If there are too many changes in stock prices every day then the volatility...
FOMO
- Anup Bansal
- Jan 26 2018
I happened to be on Dalal Street on the day Sensex crossed the mark of 35,000 on 17th January. There was the crowd, there were cameramen, there were balloons, the environment was charged with jubilation and the celebrity was SENSEX!Then, the news cried out loud this week "....the Sensex took just five trading sessions (January 17-23) to reach the historic 36,000-level from 35,000....". And, you may have been going slow with equity investments anticipating a downturn in the market due to the high...
