Economic upheavals change rules of equity investing: Making profit will now take longer than before

When you listen to a lot of investors— as I’ve been doing in various online fora during the lockdown—you come across some unanswerable questions time and again. One of these is for how long should I invest. Often, I feel the question is actually asked out of habit that grows from the dominant tradition of fixed income investing in India. When you go to a bank to make a fixed deposit, then the only decision to be made is the period of the deposit. So asking and getting an answer to the question of the investment period is about the only thinking needed.

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