Staying active in increasingly passive investment world
Investing needs your support. Your future wealth and well-being depend on the way you shepherd your savings today. You may be busy with your work life. You may not have…
How to walk the commodity ‘supercycle’ talk
There emanates from superlatives a destructive force. Elias Canetti, a Nobel laureate for literature, probably said that in the context of the second world war. In financial markets, a lot…
Stagflation – A clear and present danger
The dreaded inflation demon continues to raise the head. The consumer price inflation in America is perhaps the most-watched number in the financial markets around the world. It sets the…
MARKETS AT DIZZYING HEIGHTS – WHAT CAN GO WRONG?
The 2008 global financial crisis or GFC was called a Black Swan event. It hit the global financial system like never before. A marquee bank like Lehman Brothers does not…
China’s cup of Woes continues to overflow
Terms like ‘Tsunamis’, ‘pandemics’ and ‘contagions’ have become a regular feature in Asia over the past few decades. According to estimates thrown around, the Chinese real estate developer ‘Evergrande’ owes…