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Source: Live Mint Warren Buffett’s most famous advice is to buy companies with strong moats when they’re available at reasonable valuations. But do you know his second most famous piece of advice? Buy a low-cost index fund. That’s right. Despite building his wealth through active stock investing, Buffett advises the average investor to pursue a…
Source: Live Mint A report by Anarock found the demand for 3BHKs has now surpassed that of 2BHKs, and the sale of high-end apartments (above Rs.1.5 crore) has increased nearly four-fold since 2021. Meanwhile, demand for affordable housing (below ₹40 lakh) fell to 21% of homebuyers in the second half of 2023 from 25% in…
Source: Live Mint In investing, the apt equivalent is: Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful. Yes, yet again, a Warren Buffett quote. If you imbibe it into your decision-making process, the chance of long-term success is probably maximized. Regular readers of Contramoney have probably already got the drift. The…
Source: Live Mint A Littlle Humour He added that the second problem with sitting on part cash is — “What do you pray for every morning”. “Second problem with sitting on part cash: What do you pray every morning? That markets go down because you have some cash or that the markets go up because…
Source: Live Mint One who draws his/her own path, keeping the market noise aside. The second is who follows and tries to emulate the first type. Although millions of investors may fall into the second category, there are very few in the first bracket. So, it is not unusual for the masses to follow the…
Source: Live Mint Warren Buffett’s birthday present arrived early this year. On August 28th, two days before America Inc’s favourite great-grandpa turned 94, his bricks-to-motor-insurance conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, reached a market value of $1trn. It became only the eighth American company to claim that title and, as a child of the Nebraskan heartland, the first…
Source: Live Mint In complete contrast to the conventional rules of investing, a recently released Sebi study showed that retail investors sell nearly half of their holdings in initial public offerings (IPOs) within a week. Individual investors sold 50 per cent of the shares allotted to them by value within a week of listing and…
Source: Live Mint There are a number of learnings which we happen to imbibe from our mentors and they stay with us for many years to come. Even legends like Warren Buffett owe a major chunk of their success to their mentors and gurus. Buffett often says that his mentor and professor at Columbia University – Benjamin…
