Why lose money in Stock Market..?

Main reasons behind lose money in share market

I often meet the people who often complain about losing money in shares. Majority of the people do not know even the difference between trader and investor. It is very clear and surprising that both buyer and seller at the same think they have taken prudent decision. First we analyze that why people lose money in share market. The some reasons behind the lose money in stock market given below:

Little knowledge: The biggest reason for lose money in the market that people trade without any research and knowledge. Most of time, they rely on broker, friends or so called tips.

Greed and fear factor: Although as a human being, we cannot control our emotions in 100% manner but we can control and mange it better. Many times people make buy/sell decision in very hurried manner after rumours or TV/ newspaper headlines. After viewing headlines, ticker on TV or reading headlines in daily newspaper people were forced to take hast move without any analysis. They sudden jump into conclusion and often make worst decision.

Lack of discipline in trading: The thumb rule for trading is that you should determine your profit/ loss before any trade execution. Know the difference between trader and investors but the funny thing is that if the trader’s expected rate do not come then the forcibly become investor. Always put the stoploss for any intraday trade.

Too much averaging in one stock: People often average a particular stock and block their amount for long term and lose the bright opportunity to make the money in another stock. You do not know whether a particular stock price come to above your buying average in your life time.

Trade in leverage product without knowledge: People often trade in high leverage product and do not understand the margin requirement from the broker side. If they do not fulfil sudden requirement of the margin money, broker square the position and trader suffer very heavy loss special in derivative product or high intraday leverage product.

Too much trade: You will lose more money as your trading frequency increase. There are many charges like broker’s commission, govt charges for each trade.

Key point to remember to enter in stock market:

• Spend time in your own research about companies business, management, quarterly result, sector trend rather than tips from broker, operators, manipulators, friends or totally rely on TV anchors.
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• Decide your category first whether you want to be trader or investor. In my personal view, the chance of losing money is much lower when you enter in the market as investor.

• If you are short term trader keep strict stoploss in each trade and never chase any particular stock for averaging in each time of falling the stock’s price. You cannot always win in each trade.

• If you have deeper knowledge, conviction and understanding of your stock’s business, sector and management, you can better control the greed and fear factor in decent manner.

• Please understand about margin requirement from your broker well before doing trade in future, options or commodity futures.

Once again my best wish to all of you for good financial health and physical health on the eve one year 2014. For more detail and any other query related investment, you can contact me through my email.

Warm regards,

Arvind Trivedi

Certified Financial Planner

arvind.trivedi79@gmail.com

Important things to complete before investing

Few  small  but important things before investing

Wish a very happy and prosperous new year 2014 to all of blog reader and investors. Let us take a closer look to 2003 to assess about the performance of various asset classes. After 6 year wait, nifty and sensex have broken their last high this year and delivered the positive return. Gold has posted its biggest loss since 1981 but the intensity of declining price was low in India due to weak rupee compare with rest of world. Real estate has also witnessed a slowdown during this year. The investor has also withdrawn money from equity mutual fund also and shifted towards fix return like product  like bank FD, company FD, govt. tax free bond etc. Inflation also has remained high side during the most of the year.

Most of my friends and investors are asking about where to invest in 2014 and which asset class going to deliver highest return. Most of us ignore some small but very important step before investment. We make big financial future goal and spend a lot of time on the research report and expert advice for investment. Before investment there are few things which everyone must address. Investing is not about to only picked some best sector stocks or mutual funds or bonds scheme. Many people want to talk only about inflation figure, interest rate movement or gold return.

There are some points which you should complete before a single money investment:

• Go for online bank account facility. It would be good if you have separate account for income and expenses.

• Open a demat account even if you do not interested in shares trading. Now in demat account you can manage your mutual fund units, insurance policies and bond also.

• The other important thing is to compile KYC (Know your client) norm. For mutual fund it is compulsory for almost any investment.

• All address proofs, ID proofs and other important docs like bank cheque book, insurance policy, your photograph etc should be keep safe and in properly.

• Try to do maximum things online as it is time saver and quick and help to find your networth quick

• At last very important, keep a track of income and expenses (cash flow), asses your liquid position, do provision for some money for emergencies, buy a term insurance and health policy according to need before a single rupee investment.

Once again my best wish to all of you for good financial health and physical health on the eve one year 2014. For more detail and any other query related investment, you can contact me through my email.

Warm regards,

Arvind Trivedi

Certified Financial Planner

arvind.trivedi79@gmail.com

Asset allocation : Importance in financial planning

Asset Allocation : How much Important..?

This word is very familiar in today’s investment world but often the investor or general public confuse or not very clear about it. The main purpose of asset allocation is to minimize the risk involved in achieving a target return or maximize returns with managing risk in prudent way. Asset allocation works on a very famous proverb “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. It also play very vital role in any comprehensive financial planning.

We have mainly these types of investment assets:

• Cash
• Equity
• Precious Metal
• Real Estate
• Bonds

Among many of the the asset classes, mutual fund provide the well diversification and professional management. Asset allocation through mutual funds gives you the opportunity to get maximum benefit through diversification and reduce overall portfolio risk. Mutual funds provide better asset allocation in cash, equity and bonds asset class.

Before making any strategy to achieve long term financial goals through asset allocation there are some important points given:

• Asset allocation helps you to make fine balance between return and potential risk. It provides also a disciplined investment plan.

• It also protects your portfolio against declining market through rebalancing and diversification.

• The most important thing is that your personal asset allocation strategy may not similar than others. The financial goal and risk appetite different for person to person. It based on mainly your age, risk tolerance level, liquidity needs and time horizon.

• Please remember that asset allocation does not guarantee the best return but it offers the balanced return with managing the risk which is good enough to take care of your all future financial needs.

• The main aim of asset allocation or financial planning is to achieve your future financial goal and peace of mind. It is not much important that gain a maximum return from the investment but to achieve a peace of mind with achieve a financial goal through risk management.

For more detail and any other query related investment, you can contact me through my email.

Warm regards,

Arvind Trivedi

Certified Financial Planner

arvind.trivedi79@gmail.com

Newly Launched Inflation Indexed Bonds by RBI

Inflation Index Bonds (IINS-C)

As per promised in the Union Budget 2013-14, RBI has launched Inflation Indexed National Securities – Cumulative (IINS-C) in this month.. The total return on this fund would be depends on fixed rate (1.5%) and inflation rate based on Consumer Price Index (CPI). Interest rate will be compounded half yearly and only paid at the time of maturity.

The maturity period of this fund is 10 year. The minimum investment allowed in this fund is Rs 5,000 and the maximum investment allowed up to Rs 5 Lakh. The prime mandate of these type of bond are to provide the assurance to the investor to beat the inflation.

Most of investors want to know that which is much better option between bank fixed deposit and inflation indexed bond. To understand it better, here we are going to compare tax liability and penalty if we withdraw fund premature.

Premature Withdrawal:

In case of bank fixed deposit, if you redeem before the maturity, there is penalty of 1% on whole accrued interest amount, it means you will get 1% less interest rate from the rate whatever bank offer you at the time of deposit.

In case of inflation index bond (IINS-C), there would be deduction of 50% of last coupon (interest) rate as penalty, if withdraw it premature. During the time of high inflation, IINS-C will give substantially high return than bank fixed deposit. The return on these bonds would be volatile compare with bank FD which gives fix rate of return.

Inflation index bond allow early withdrawal after one year for senior citizen (above 65 year age) and three year for others.

Comparison for Taxation:

Tax will be levied on interest as per tax slab in both cases. In case of bank fix deposit, you pay tax on each financial year on the accrued interest which is only available at the time of maturity.

In case of IINS-C, investor can pay tax in each financial year or pay once at the time of maturity. Income tax department provide both options in accrual products but it should be uniform, not financial instrument wise.

If you do not need interval income and want  to beat inflation in the long run without taking any risk then these bonds may prove for you good investment option.

It is the vast subjective subject. For more detail and any other query related investment, you can contact me through my email

Warm regards,

Arvind Trivedi

Certified Financial Planner

arvind.trivedi79@gmail.com

Tax deduction in Real Estate

Tax saving opportunities in real estate

Real Estate, it is the very common and traditional investment avenue for the investor. In last 4-5 year, it has performed fairly well against most of asset class. Most of us believe that it is safe and quick return generating asset. In realty, before any investment you should be aware of your tax benefit and tax liability both.

For example, if an individual sell the house within 3 year from purchase, the earlier claimed tax benefit completely reverse and you have to pay the short term capital gain tax as per your income tax slab. So in case if you sell property and think of 50% gain then kindly consider the tax liability also before selling your property. It is applicable to all type of properties whether self occupied property or let out property (LOP) or deemed let out property (DLOP). Let out property (LOP) means that property from which you are earning some income and DLOP means that property has not yet been let out for rent. These tax rules are not applicable on farm house as it is considered as an agriculture land.

If you have property from which you are getting rent income is consider as LOP. For calculate the tax liability, we have to first calculate the net annual value of the property. The following steps help you to calculate the net annual value (NAV) of the property:

Step 1: Compare the municipal value and fair rent. Fair rent can be obtain

            from the rent of properties under similar category. The higher value

            can be used but it should not exceed than standard rent. Standard

            rent fixed as per guideline of the Rent Control Act

Step 2: Actual rent value received from property

Step 3: Choose the higher value from the above 2 steps

Step 4: Calculate rent amount for those months when property was not

            Rented

Step 5: Calculate the difference of the value of step 3 and step 4. It is your

            Gross Annual Value (GAV).

Step 6: We will get the Net Annual Value (NAV), by deducting the paid and

            due municipal taxes from GAV.

In case of multiple properties, the highest GAV value property is considered as self occupied property.

Available tax deduction:

• The principal amount you pay for home loan can be also claimed under section 80(c) within the limit of Rs 1 lakh.

• Under Section 24(a), taxpayer can directly claim the 30% of NAV of the property as a tax deduction for maintenance of the property regardless whether the amount has been spend or not for the maintenance of property. It can be claim for LOP and DLOP property not for self occupied property.

• Under Section 24(b) interest paid for borrowed home loan, taxpayer can claim entire interest in case of LOP and DLOP property. In case of self occupied property there is limit of Rs 1,50,000 for tax deduction interest paid for borrowed home loan. This deduction can be claimed after complete construction of the property.

It is the vast subjective subject. For more detail and any other query related investment, you can contact me through my email

Warm regards,

Arvind Trivedi

Certified Financial Planner

arvind.trivedi79@gmail.com

Are  you considering guaranteed plan...? Think again!!!

After ULIP out of season, equity market’s return flat the insurer and mutual fund using “Guranteed” word to attract business. I am sure that most of you very often interested with these schemes for shake of your protecting your capital. After sometime you realize that your choice was wrong. I always recommend to all investors that please read whole offer document, search on sites or take advice from any good financial planner before any investment. No matter what is the investment amount.  After all it is your hard earned money so be prudent at the time of investment.

Guarantee is a very powerful world in any sales drive. Insurance companies offer guaranteed payout and insurance cover both to push the sales and get the benefit of investor’s mindset as these products are easily marketable with less effort. Before caught in the sales pitch you should enquire about the return of investment.

It has been very clear now after review of many these types of guaranteed insurance plan often fail to deliver the return even equal to bank fix deposit in the long run. I am not mentioning here the particular name of these types of plan as I don’t want to create any misconception or controversy but you will also believe after the decoding these plans carefully.

Guaranteed income plans are non- participating traditional plan and never disclose the investment costs and return. For example one plan says in the fine print that “ 8 % of the sum assured as payback guaranteed”. Most of the time investor think that he will get return of 8 % on the investment whereas the fine print means that there is guaranteed 8% payout of the sum assured. After many such plan’s analysis the actual net rate of return is 4%.

4% return is not great return in the 10-15 years. If you still happy with these types of return choice is yours.

The cost of guarantee is so huge and opaque that it is very difficult to arrive a net return on the investment. You are not getting only lower return you are also eroding your capital against inflation. According to me, you should concentrate on generating value from investment in the long run.

If you are conservative investor, Public Provident Fund (PPF) is good option for high tax bracket. Lower tax bracket investor may go with bank fix deposit also.

If you have some risk taking capacity you can make good capital appreciation with tax saving. ELSS mutual fund is the best option for long term investment as it offer capital appreciation with tax saving.

For more detail and any other query related investment, you can contact me through my email

Warm regards,

Arvind Trivedi

Certified Financial Planner

arvind.trivedi79@gmail.com

Financial Planning : Is it for you ?

Financial Planning : Is it relevant for you..?

Whenever I conduct workshop on financial planning or meet the client. It is very common doubt inside the client’s mind whether the financial planning is so important for them or not. In our country, we plan everything but not our finance. We are the largest saver country in the world. In fact we have  great saver mindset but most of us don’t understand or underestimate the need of financial planning. A common myth exist among the investor that it is only useful for only rich and elite class person. Today we will try to find out for whom the financial planning is important.

• If you don’t know where is your income going every month and always wonder about your expenses then you definitely need to make a budget for your income and expenditure. It is very basic and vital setp towards making a financial plan. Impulsive buying and lack of budget planning may be proved very costly for your long term future goal.

• If you are in the trap of debt and your liability is increasing due to loan interest amount you pay then seriously you should make a proper plan to get out from various liabilities. For the blind race to lead much comfort life style, you often use the facility of credit card, personal loan and bank overdraft facility. These all loans lead you towards a serious financial mess. A financial plan will help you to come out from financial mess.

• If your investments are scattered and you are not sure that whether it is right investment or wrong then financial planning for you. Many times we do investment on the recommendations from agents, relatives and friends without knowing the product’s risk and return ratio. Keep in mind each investments have always some degree of risk. A financial plan provides you consolidated investment statement and you can analyze it time to time in very easy manner.

• If you have a multiple life insurance policies and you are paying a hefty premium for those policies without knowing the expected return and sum assured then you must need of financial plan. Most of the people are underinsured in our country and people must know the about adequate insurance amount what they need. It is very important to know that how much life and medical cover you need. A financial planner help you to determine all these need based on your provided information. Insurance also is the vital part of any financial plan.

• If your major investment in the particular asset class and you are not sure whether it can help you to achieve your particular goal then you need a financial planner who help you to achieve your future financial goal through diversified investment portfolio with proper asset allocation. Asset allocation may be differ for person to person and you need to know which type of asset allocation you required to achieve your financial goal.

• If you don’t have habit to regular investing then you must need a financial plan. In every success goal achieving story discipline and determination is the key element. By create a financial plan with the help of expert and follow that plan religiously is very crucial to achieve your long, medium and short term goals.

Now after reading the above mentioned pointes it has become clear that financial plan is like a road map to achieve your dreams and desires to lead a happy and prosperous life. However, many of you have not any idea how to invest and where to invest or you may not have sufficient time to make financial plan and track your investment portfolio then you should must hire a expert planner lead to stress free life.

For more detail and any other query related investment, you can contact me through my email

Warm regards,

Arvind Trivedi

Certified Financial Planner

arvind.trivedi79@gmail.com