The Indian Equity market was a mixed bag in 2018-19 (till March 31, 2019) with the key indices providing widespread returns. Though the Nifty was up 16.5% for the year, the Nifty Midcap 100 was down 1.9% and the Nifty...

Here’s our assessment of equity and debt markets in March 2019. Apart from the elections, larger issues having an impact on the market are strong buying by foreign portfolio investors (FPI), a stronger rupee, and the banking sector logjam.

The per capita income itself is growing at about 10% annually. On the other hand, ‘basic needs’ like food has already been met for most of the population and will not grow at the same pace. Most likely, basic needs will grow in line with inflation or less.

Being lucky, seems totally illogical and unscientific and as a result the human mind rejects the possibility of developing the art of being lucky. On the other hand, Dr Richard Wiseman did a detailed study on the psychological difference between lucky and unlucky people and wrote about it in his book “The Luck Factor”.

Here’s our assessment of equity and debt markets in February 2019. Apart from the elections, one of the larger issues having an impact on the markets is the spate of selling by foreign portfolio investors (FPI), driven by US-China trade war.

I am writing this, as I have made several mistakes over all these years as an investor. If not for some of these mistakes, I would be far better off today and much wealthier.

With the general elections just a few months away, we have seen several investors being cautious over the equity markets and are either delaying their investments, or worse still pulling back on existing investments.

When you are young, even starting to think of planning your finances is half the battle won.