arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
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
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
Warren Buffet is the super investor of our time and probably the best known investing celebrity. Even a small investment in Buffet’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, when Buffet took the helm, would have made any investor a millionaire many
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
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
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
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
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
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 20
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
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 reces
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
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, plea
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
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
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
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 asse
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
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 o
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arohan has posted a new entry on: Arohan's investing life
Over the weekend this blog was tagged in a link building meme by our friend at Free From Broke. Apparently the idea is to build on the links in the link tag between the Start and the Stop Copying tags by adding five more links to the list. Hopefull
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