In May this year, ace investor Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway reported its biggest-ever loss at 50 billion dollars in the March 2020 quarter as the coronavirus pandemic took a toll on the Oracle of Omaha’s investment portfolio. The next day Berkshire Hathaway dumped all of its holdings in the airline sector, raising questions over decades of Buffett’s wisdom on holding stocks for the long-term. In a world that stands changed forever due to the COVID-19 pandemic, investment strategies are also changing swiftly. And India is no exception.
As things stand, the Indian stock market is currently favouring short-term traders over the patient long-term investors, at least going by the performance of the broader market in the last decade. The tenyear rolling returns for Nifty50 declined from 19 per cent in the year ending July 2013 to a record low of 8 per cent in the year ending July 2020, which is less than even the returns on bank and post office fixed deposits (FDs) an investor would have earned over the same period. And gold is up 26 per cent in just the last 12 months. The analysis is based on the assumption that investor buys an asset whether equity, gold or fixed deposit and stays invested for ten years. In equities for example, the July 2020 returns is for a portfolio bought 10-years ago and redeemed in July this year.
Comparisons between equity and other assets (as in the table) are based on 12-month average value of Nifty 50 index for the year ending July every year.
Failing the investors?
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة August 2020 من Outlook Money.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة August 2020 من Outlook Money.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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