Samuel Zachariah

How different investments have preserved and grown real wealth over the last five years. Horizon ≈ 5 years · 2020–2025 Currency INR Measure CAGR, point-to-point Inflation quietly erodes wealth: money left idle loses purchasing power every year. Between FY2021 and FY2025, India's consumer price inflation averaged roughly 5.5%, so any asset returning less than that lost real value. Over this five-year window, several asset classes cleared that bar comfortably. Indian equity, tracked by...

Diving into the "why" behing the underperfomance

The recent market movement in the US is what analysts call “Anthropic shock” while the global markets were already on the edge due to interest rate uncertainty, a massive tech driven sell-off has happened and has led to a cross market linking effect on the Indian market as well. The US Catalyst: AI "Angst" Hits Wall Street Yesterday and today, the US markets witnessed a "valuation reset." The Nasdaq Composite fell by over 2% , while the Dow Jones slipped back from a psychological 50,000...