Safal Niveshak

Wit. Wisdom. Value Investing.

You are here: Home / 2012 / Archives for January 2012

Archives for January 2012

Winner of “My Money Resolution for 2012” Contest Is…

The result for the “My Money Resolution for 2012” contest is in, and let me tell you…this was tough.

I want to thank everyone who participated!

There were way too many great submissions for this to be an easy exercise. So the choice of the winner was incredibly tight.

But still, I had to choose the best entry, and it was the one that dealt with the behavioural issues of handling one’s money and investments…and one that communicated the entire essence of human behaviour and money in an amazingly simple manner.

I mean, I couldn’t have explained this subject in a better way!

And the winner is…
[Read more…] about Winner of “My Money Resolution for 2012” Contest Is…

In 2012, You’ve Got Two Choices As An Investor

There are two primary choices we have in life…

  1. To accept conditions as they exist, or
  2. To accept the responsibility for changing them

If you are an investor, 2012 again presents these two choices to you.

Changing your investing life – the way you think about and treat your hard-earned money – can seem an incredibly tough and complicated thing.

This is especially true if you’ve failed a great number of times (like I did), and resigned yourself to not changing.

“This is tough!” I used to tell myself after every failure with my investments.

“Will I ever become a good stock picker?” I told myself every time I suffered a loss.

“Who would want to read what I write on stock market investing?” I doubted as I was beginning on the Safal Niveshak initiative.
[Read more…] about In 2012, You’ve Got Two Choices As An Investor