Investment Rubrics and why you should include wine in your portfolio

Mahesh Kumar’s renowned book Wine Investment for Portfolio Diversification: How Collecting Fine Wines Can Yield Greater Returns than Stocks and Bonds, provides a careful outline of the rubrics of wine investment in a technical manner. Starting with the basics such as the history of the most prolific and profitable region Bordeaux, the quality of Bordeaux [...]

Coming back to the basics

In this article from the Financial Times, the chief of the JPMorgan Chase has announced uninviting prospects in the year ahead.  Mr Dimon has predicted deterioration of the economy in 2009, with the rising worry that shares on both sides of the Atlantic will have fallen, that banks might need more capitalization and consumer retail [...]

Wine is the new gold

Satyam Computer Services scandal/Why you should look farther than the stock market

One of the biggest software companies in India, Satyam Computer Services, reports a case of fraud that involved overstating financial statements, showing hugely inflated profits and fictitious assets in the hope of hiding a poor performance. In his letter, Mr Raju said Satyam’s accounts in the quarter ended last September included a cash pile of [...]

Bordeaux: A trip to the land of fine wine

Bordeaux wines are the most extensively tracked wines in the world because of their importance to the market. The wines are rated three times before they ever reach the consumers, twice before the wines are bottled. The name Bordeaux is synonymous with wine investments. This is attributable with the rich history and strategic location of [...]

LAND INVESTMENT: Canada

For hundreds of years, vast fortunes have been made in land. It can often be purchased extremely cheaply, and with little or no effort at all it can bring a return that is multiple times its original investment cost. There are more benefits – • Buying land is usually a good deal compared to buying [...]