India is one of the last bastions of the actively managed fund managers. We do not have ANY website dedicated to Index based investing, and we seriously do not have champions. Of course things could be changing with Blackrock trying to play a big role in the Indian fund management industry. Others could follow suit… […]

Every time I write something about equity or equity funds I get some message saying ‘tell us how to pick shares’. So I thought I should write about what people should expect from blogs. First of all you should know why a person writes a blog. Largely it is meant to attract people and say […]

When I started investing in 1979, I had not heard of ANY fancy words. My portfolio came in before my learning the jargon. When I started doing my CA in 1982, I knew about balance sheets, but not enough about analysis. My portfolio was getting created alongside – of course with my father’s money! In […]

Last week I wrote about the shenanigans of Icici bank. Well I did not include the FPO of Icici Securities (please it was not an IPO) of Rs. 4000 crores. I have no clue what a brokerage firm would have done with Rs. 4000 crores! So it was just Icici bank encashing its investments with […]

Are you wondering what is the connection between an IFA, Netflix and Amazon? Its simple. One company in the world will do to the IFA business what Netflix did to entertainment and Amazon did to the world business at large. In today’s world there is a growth at all costs model – which many of […]

Wrote this 10 years ago on 29 April, 2008….it is a Warren Buffett lesson…   Ignore share market forecasts! short post, old post, but always relevant to investors. Especially direct equity investors. At least mutual fund investors have the SIP habit, but it is the equity guys who refuse to stop trying to time the […]