After evaluating different options, I have decided that p2p lending on Prosper.com offers excellent opportunity to earn returns better than a CD or a money market account. I may be late to the bandwagon as many personal finance bloggers have already signed up at Prosper, but I did take time to carefully review the activity [...]

Warren Buffett is the super investor of our time and probably the best known investing celebrity. Even a small investment in Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, when Buffett took the helm, would have made any investor a millionaire many times over. In 1965, when Buffett took control of the company, a single Berkshire Hathaway share [...]

A quick note regarding several investments that were recommended (and the author took a personal stake at the time of recommendation). WSCI: WSI Industries was recommended as a growing metal working company with excellent prospects. I took a position in the company in the $4-$5 range several months ago. In the last one month, I have [...]

Senator Barack Obama outlined his economic policy highlights today, were he to become the next President of United States. His position on Capital Gains taxes is quite alarming and can have a profound effect on the US economy if it becomes a reality Senator Obama is willing to increase the Capital Gains tax rate to 25% [...]

Two interesting articles/stories caught my eye today The first one talks about the mind boggling 2007 total compensation (earnings + stock) to Blackstone Group’s co-founder Stephen Schwarzman. According to this AP story, his compensation in 2007 was $350.7 million and along with stock grants valued at $4.77 B during Blackstone’s IPO, his total takeaway was [...]

Fed in a surprise move today announced $200 Billion worth of liquidity injection in the credit markets This fed action is different from what it has traditionally done and is clearly in response to a situation that is different from traditional recessionary period. And therefore it is more likely to succeed. Cutting interest rates helps [...]

You will notice that I have put in a new copy protection on my website today. It appears that there are websites that have been gleefully copying the entire articles from my blog without my permission. If you would like to syndicate my articles, please ask me for permission. I am pretty open to any and [...]

Two years ago I expended considerable time and effort to find a way to invest in Indian companies on local Indian exchanges. Yes, we can buy ADS/ADRs on American exchanges and for some companies that do not trade in US, one may be able to buy GDRs on some European exchanges (depending on whether your [...]

Can the gloom surrounding Citigroup be any darker? The stock as of this writing is trading at a 9 year low. Goldman and Merrill Lynch have reduced their profit forecasts for 2008 for Citi and Merrill also believes that there is additional 18B in asset writedowns looming. Then there is news that Dubai International Capital professing a [...]

This of course is not a new revelation. However, many readers and investors do not grasp the amount of risk that may be present in smaller companies. A big part of this risk may be just volatility due to illiquid nature of stock, but there are some other more basic risks that an investor [...]