25% returns strategy: Way to go
Financial year 2007-2008 has ended and Indian stock markets are off the radar of global investors. Most mutual funds gave excellent returns as long as the market was in top gear and there is a clutch of funds with superb numbers even after the January crash. However, retail investor is again trapped with no solution in sight. If the situation is prompting you to think that stock markets are a perfect destination for becoming millionaire by investing billions, please stop reading this. With all sincerity and after taking a heavy beating on my own portfolio, I still believe that stocks are perfect to make serious money without sharing the same risks of running a business. World’s richest person got all his greens from investing in stocks, after all. The description should ideally lead to the conclusion that rampant and wild directionless investment albeit large size is not going to get anywhere except at the bottom of the pile. Simultaneously, it calls for a change in investment strategy...