Dont Be Just GOOD, Do It BETTER While Investing GOOD Bett

Who does not wish to be a better investor and smarter too— especially in these days when there are several instruments available around us to invest our hard-earned money. Lohit Bharambe and a team of experienced research professionals from your favourite investment fortnightly bring this exhaustive report guiding you through the journey of being a ‘better investor.’

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Sejalbhai Mehta has a flourishing business of car rental while also working for a private sector insurance company at a senior level in Ahmedabad. The amount of money he earns from his part-time business, mostly monitored by his wife, Rajalben, is invested in the equity markets, real estate and also in precious metals. In his early forties, Mehta using his exposure in the insurance and stocks markets, judges himself as a good and wise investor. But on November 9 this year, when markets across the global witnessed a free fall on the wake of outcome of the US Presidential elections and India faced the worst as the government in the previous night scrapped both ₹500 and ₹1000 notes, Mehta lost a huge chunk of money in the markets. He confided to his friends that although he had been a ‘good investor,’ he was not really a ‘better and smarter’ one. After witnessing the bloodbath on the Dalal Street on that Scary Wednesday, Mehta now wishes to understand the world of investments better and also in a smarter way. His depleting wealth has become a big concern not only for him and his family members but also for the friends around him who used to take market related cues from him while investing.

Investing in stocks, properties, metals, mutual funds, insurance and several such products can be termed as a straight and simple human instinct. Each one of us wishes to see a better tomorrow and investment decisions are mostly taken to achieve the said goal. Being an investor is a simple thing but being a ‘better investor’ is not that simple. It requires loads of persistence, tolerance, patience, power to take right decisions, identifying the right moment, right instrument and right avenue in the world of investment.

It always has been our endeavour in the