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Pros and Cons of Index Investing -  By Late Mr. Parag Parikh Shuchi.P.Nahar Index funds are simply mutual funds that attempt to mimic a given market. There are actually many more than that tracking many different markets of all shapes and sizes, but each one shares the same basic principle: Its goal is simply to match that particular market’s return. Index investing is therefore simply the process of using index funds to build a passive investment strategy. Index investors decide which markets they want to invest in, how much of their money to put in each one, and utilize index funds to put that plan in place. What is market? Where do you see the market going? how is market judged? By what the index is judged? These are some of the basic questions that every investor asks sooner or later in his investment journey .   If the index is up that means that the market is up, sometimes you may find the market is going up but your portfolio has not increased or decreased. ...

Post Pandemic Views & Investment Journey - Mohnish Pabrai Twitter Handle: @shuchi_nahar Shuchi.P.Nahar Introduction: Radhika Gupta, CEO of Edelweiss Asset Management, and Mohnish Pabrai discuss bridge, Dhandho investing, Mohnish’s lunch with Warren Buffett, the importance of patience in investing, and the current investment landscape. Quest by Radhika Gupta : In order to start this conversation with a quote that she has heard from mohnish pabrai and this is something very close to her, you said that the good news in investing is there are no HR problems because if there are no humans there are no problems . So if we want to know why Mohnish Pabrai chose to invest as a career because he actually started out in sales and marketing and then he did entrepreneurship and then turned investor so how his professional journey took a turn? Answer by Mohnish Pabrai : So most of us when we grow up we basically tend to confirm what the world expects of us or how the world expects us to act or ...

Field Guide to Investing by Neeraj Marathe ( CFA Society India) Twitter: shuchi_nahar So here is the article that will definitely widen the thinking horizon before investing in stocks just by listening to markets. It's a compilation of my understanding from the webinar that I attended. The start of a new year is always one of the best times to review your investment strategy. We know what happened last year, but 2020 is a chapter waiting to be written. One thing we can count on is that 2020  won’t  be exactly like 2019.  That means no one would have ever thought that 2020 will bring all the unexpected to us. These are the times that were nightmares but anyhow the world is surviving. Staying without work, without income, far from families , pandemic, fire and so on but as its said every coin has two sides lets not forget the good ones. Unprecedented Times Never has the world been so connected. Never has the world come to halt. Never has there been such ...