Comments on: I finally get what is Beta http://pnarula.com/200510/i-finally-get-what-is-beta/ Intense activity - in the midst of eternal calmness Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:24:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: sandeep http://pnarula.com/200510/i-finally-get-what-is-beta/#comment-3592 sandeep Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:45:34 +0000 http://www.pnarula.com/archives/2005/10/10/i-finally-get-what-is-beta/#comment-3592 Arre Dost yeah konse chaqar mein padd gaye ho.. For so long in India wehave known, whenever you have to make an investment, you should always think about your beta or beta's. Kyonki purano mein bhi likha hai that your beta i.e. son is the only investment if you can get right will payoff you in your late life. i was just trying to apply the "beta" thoughts to the stocks in the indian market and somehow over the last two years, its just been phenomenal, sometimes i felt it would haven been good, had i gambled... then believing myself to be an investor.. anyways thats me... But still you are right It's good to have known beta's then unknowns beta's otherwise you will end up paying a lot in the form of child care allowances. Arre Dost yeah konse chaqar mein padd gaye ho..
For so long in India wehave known, whenever you have to make an investment, you should always think about your beta or beta’s. Kyonki purano mein bhi likha hai that your beta i.e. son is the only investment if you can get right will payoff you in your late life.

i was just trying to apply the “beta” thoughts to the stocks in the indian market and somehow over the last two years, its just been phenomenal, sometimes i felt it would haven been good, had i gambled… then believing myself to be an investor.. anyways thats me… But still you are right It’s good to have known beta’s then unknowns beta’s otherwise you will end up paying a lot in the form of child care allowances.

]]> By: Pankaj Narula http://pnarula.com/200510/i-finally-get-what-is-beta/#comment-3109 Pankaj Narula Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:58:21 +0000 http://www.pnarula.com/archives/2005/10/10/i-finally-get-what-is-beta/#comment-3109 Very true indeed. Nilesh, reading theory is fine but it is the practice of these ideas that will win the cake. Still after reading these books I think of my investments of dot-com days and smile, I was no different than a gambler. Let us see what this new found knowledge will do. But this has given me new worries, now I worry about inflation and the exchange rates :O| -Pankaj Very true indeed.

Nilesh, reading theory is fine but it is the practice of these ideas that will win the cake. Still after reading these books I think of my investments of dot-com days and smile, I was no different than a gambler. Let us see what this new found knowledge will do.

But this has given me new worries, now I worry about inflation and the exchange rates :O|

-Pankaj

]]> By: Nilesh Chandra http://pnarula.com/200510/i-finally-get-what-is-beta/#comment-3107 Nilesh Chandra Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:53:04 +0000 http://www.pnarula.com/archives/2005/10/10/i-finally-get-what-is-beta/#comment-3107 And now, thou hath mastered the basics of the CAPM, for which these dudes got a Nobel! Isn't it amazing how the discovery of incredibly simple stuff always gets people a Nobel. Perhaps the discovery of incredible phenomena is easy, it is the simple stuff that's hard. Why this conundrum? 5000 years of civilization and we (mankind) still have trouble with the simple stuff. And now, thou hath mastered the basics of the CAPM, for which these dudes got a Nobel!

Isn’t it amazing how the discovery of incredibly simple stuff always gets people a Nobel. Perhaps the discovery of incredible phenomena is easy, it is the simple stuff that’s hard.

Why this conundrum? 5000 years of civilization and we (mankind) still have trouble with the simple stuff.

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