Long-term equity investment doesn’t mean not paying attention; here is the right way to look at it

The way one gets sad when we lose an old friend, some people get sad when a stock stops doing well. It’s even stranger than that. I met someone who once had a longstanding and trusting relationship—there’s no other word—with the Castrol stock. For almost two decades, this person put a large proportion of his family’s savings into this stock, and the stock delivered. Much of what one sets as life’s big financial goals was achieved by the returns