R Balakrishnan

R Balakrishnan is an independent consultant and has been in business and finance for over three decades. He was one of the founding team members of CRISIL and also helped set up Malaysia's first credit rating agency. He was head of equity research at DSP Financial Consultants and CEO & CIO of a couple of mutual...

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Moneylife Online Magazine
‘How early should I start my investment journey?’ Everyone knows the answer. If you do not know...
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Moneylife Online Magazine
The madness in the market continues. Now, a few people point to their inability to find value in...
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Moneylife Online Magazine
An interesting notice was brought to my attention last week. It is a disclosure by Indian Card...
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Moneylife Online Magazine
This time, I want to air some thoughts on the wealth that you accumulate over a life time and...
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Moneylife Online Magazine
Stock markets are an unpredictable, yet, thrilling ride. The probability of making the right...
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Moneylife Online Magazine
I read a very interesting book titled Money Men by Dan McCrum. It is an amazing reflection on...
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Moneylife Online Magazine
I think buying shares is easy; selling is a challenge. Then, I invert the problem. At a given...
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The year was 1993; I was working at CRISIL Ratings Ltd. That year, we saw quite a few interesting...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
We invest in stocks to gain returns better than on fixed-income products and protect against...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
Every day, we are bombarded advice on how to invest our money. From an old school type of bank...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
I recently read a comment that says, venture capital (VC)-funded, new-age companies have a...
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Moneylife News
Saraswat Cooperative Bank Ltd is a scheduled bank. It is a ‘cooperative society’. It has...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
There is outrage over IPO (initial public offering -- of companies seeking to list their shares)...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
Almost every day, I get a message or a teaser inviting me to put money in a ‘sure-shot’...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
Once COVID-19 stepped in and life as we knew it came to a halt, millions of new investors found...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
Investors are the easiest prey. Just tempt them by offering returns that are a few percentage...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
Looking back, 2022 has been a roller coaster ride for us investors. Luckily, on the basis of our...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
The markets continue to be in the grip of the bulls. There seems to be good news and more good...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
I came across two interesting pieces of data on my Twitter timeline. The first is the view of 18...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
I am all for free markets—but free markets that are ‘fair’ to investors. A mutual fund (MF)...
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