Personal Investment Guide

I am looking for a long term investment in India (5 to 9 years). I think I can invest around Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 30,000 every month. I have thought about investing in gold and real estate. I dont think I would want to invest in stock market after seeing the market crash.
If investing in [...]

First of all, I am looking for a good long term investment. I found a couple of mutual funds that I am interested in. One has been around since 1993 (VLEOX) and the other since 2003 (HFTFX). Both funds have solid historic performance and have both outperformed their benchmarks. Neither is heavily [...]

My financial adviser has been very adamant about my pushing forward an aggressive mutual fund strategy. She has recommended a pretty diverse portfolio of funds, but why would I want to throw so much of my savings (not just a few thousand dollars, rather a very large chunk of money) in to the market [...]

I remember back in the 70's gold was going for over 0 an ounce.
Now after almost 30 years it's about 0 an ounce.
How can anyone say gold is a good long term investment??
I do have about 6 ounces of gold coins but I have it just because I like the look and feel of real [...]