Investment mantra: getting the right mix of real estate, gold and equities

We live in a country where real estate rules as an investment class and property pulls in 50 per cent of India's savings. Why is it that people are willing to take big punts on a lumpy investment like real estate, when there are other investments that can find a way into the portfolio. How much of your savings should go into property, vis a vis, stocks, deposits and gold? We get to the bottom of how much real estate is enough with our experts Ambareesh Baliga, managing partner of global wealth management at Edelweiss Financial Services; Arvind Chari, fund manager at Quantum Asset Management Company Private Limited; Hrishikesh Parandekar, CEO and group head of broking at Wealth Management and Asset Management at Karvy; Gajendra Nagpal, founder and CEO of Unicon Financial Intermediaries Pvt. Ltd, and Gaurav Pandey, senior vice-president and head of research and consulting at PropEquity.