Can active investing ever work for you?

Let’s talk about active investing vs passive investing.

Passive investing is an investment strategy that is based on taking long positions on the market in general (pegged to an index like S&P 500, STI, Nifty or ASX 200) rather than…

Shreeniwas Iyer

Nov 17, 2017

Protecting retirement equity savings through market crashes

One of my friends asked me this question:

If I invest in equities all my working life, and just when the retire, the markets crash eroding 30%, then wouldn’t that leave me poorer off? Shouldn’t I…

Hurdle rate

A hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project or investment required by a manager or investor. The hurdle rate denotes appropriate compensation for the level of risk present; riskier projects generally have higher hurdle rates than those that are deemed to be less risky.

Shreeniwas Iyer

Nov 3, 2017

Yield growth’s effect on returns

Given a market where there is a liquid market for an asset at fixed multiples of yield, how does growth of yield affect return? The answer is simple. And powerful.

Let me rephrase the question in less academic terms. If you bought a share with a…

Shreeniwas Iyer

Nov 3, 2017

Experimenting with Indexes — JUNIORBEES

Between May & August of 2016, I sold 28 different scrips from my portfolio and exchanged all of them for 1 ETF — JUNIORBEES that tracks the Junior Nifty index.