If NaMo and his team do good for the country, that will be good for the economy, so that will be good for the companies, so it will be good for the shareholder, right? Not so fast my friend. Let us see what happens when by some quirk of fate competition is shut out. Take […]

I am going to give you 2 sporting examples. One of course is Cricket and the other is Running. Rahul Dravid is not the most spectacular of batsmen. However he knew one thing – the total number of runs that he scored depended on the amount of time that he spent at the crease and […]

I have been investing now for a few decades. Initially it was difficult to get balance sheets. One had to go to Raddiwalas (old paper shops) to collect balance sheets. Then you sat down with a paper and pencil to calculate ‘ratios’ over the past 4 years, then you had to make the cash flow […]

In the 1960s if you wanted to buy a house in Mumbai, you did not go to a builder, you went to 7 or 8 friends and said ‘let us form a co-operative society. Then you bought land, and then went to a builder and asked him to build a house for all of you. […]

What are the barriers to wealth creation? Mostly it is in the brain. Man has 3 parts in the brain – one is the simple brain that we got a couple of million years ago. This knows very little. It has simple needs – food, shelter, sex. This brain is a tribe loving brain. It […]

If you do not like to read about Macro risks, I agree with you, you can skip this post. The micro risk of wrong asset allocation and financial mistakes have already been covered earlier..here is the macro. India and the world. Specific to India: Good in the long run is Raghuram Rajan’s speed of NPA […]

If you are above 70 years of age, have a credit card, use net banking, have invested in mutual funds, make E deposits, redeem it online, pay your taxes online, transfer moneys online, …Congrats, you deserve a prize. My friend just paid Rs. X into her brother’s credit card this Monday…the cheque has not yet […]