Guest Column

Prashant Das, Assistant Professor of real estate finance at Lausanne Hotel School, University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland busts the five myths associated with Indian real estate investment trusts (IREIT)

Investing responsibly is not just good for your conscience but makes economic sense to do so, says Rohini Rathour.

Deepak Jaggi, Director and Head Sales - Retail, Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management discusses the importance of making a will.

Some have less, some have more. But the ones who have less manjha (thread used to fly kites) don’t stop flying kites. This holds true for investing too. You don’t need a lot of money to invest. All you need is one kite and some manjha to start flying!

The track record of forecasters is not as impressive as one would like to see. So if you cannot predict, protect your portfolio.

Rajesh Krishnamoorthy, MD of iFAST feels that advisors will have no choice but to adopt a fee model in the future.

What matters is buying wisely and then simply staying the course.

Dileep Choksi, Chief Mentor and Advisor, Will Effect, discusses the merits and challenges of transferring beneficial ownership in financial instruments through a nominee.

Rajesh Krishnamoorthy, MD, iFAST Financial, does some crystal gazing about the implications of the sweeping changes in the distribution space and what it means for distributors.

If it wasn’t for the impulsive, overconfident, irrationally exuberant, cognitively biased masses and their quirky behavior, we would have no markets at all.