August 2012

Query: Please find enclosed my article for the xyz souvenir. Please feel free to comment.

Investor’s Query: It seems a long time ago that I bought shares of Corporation Bank during their IPO. Not that I am complaining, but I wonder as to how people survive in India .I had a SB Account with the xxx branch. The then manager sent me some forms requesting I buy some shares. I made a very modest investment. Since then every year dividends are credited to my account. But the performance of the shares is somewhat disconcerting. Let me explain:

Query: I was wondering what you thought about the equity market – even though I know that you are not a market timer.

Obviously the global situation is very bad, and arguable things are reasonably bad here as well – be it the macro economic situation or the politics. However, over the past few years I have tended to be even more conservative than usual because of the unusual issues in the global environment (with parallels to the great depression etc).

Dear ABC Family member,

In the light of what we understood as spoken by our director Mr. XXX at our Annual Day, in the current times it is very essential for all of us to widen our product basket. Recently many of our other business associates who also deal in Commodities have shared with us how the Commodities segment not only helped them in the testing times but also has boosted their revenues.

Mr. Harish Rao: One very interesting link for your reference;

http://www.financialadvisormagazine.com/fa-news/11781–yusko-sees-new-abnormal-paltry-equities-returns-until-2021.html
I would like to hear your view on this?