Warren Buffet is a great investor, and a great CEO for Berkshire Hathaway. He regularly makes very profound investment statements regarding the investment world…and the other managers. One of the statements attributed to WB is: ‘When all you have is a hammer, the world looks like a nail‘. This is easy to interpret. Take […]

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How funny we keep seeing this cycle of ups and downs…In an up we believe there will be no downs…and in a down we believe there will be no up! I thinking cycling and running – two things that I do help you handle such situations well! If it is a route you know (or […]

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The term Bear Market is not easy to define. A loose consensus is when the market falls 20%, it is officially called a bear market. Let us say the market has fallen from 21000 to 17000, then it is a bear market. However, just hold on, life is not so simple! Too many pundits and […]

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It is now compulsory for many companies to file their Annual Returns in XBRL format. Let us look at the process involved in doing this: You convince a company that you are capable of converting their pdf / other formats into xbrl format. Then the company sends you the annual return. Assuming it is in […]

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So many parents can afford to send their kids abroad today, it is not funny! And most people would have had aspirations to study in Harvard, Wharton,….the Ivy League. Today they can sign cheques of US $ 150,000 without batting an eyelid when their kid says ‘dad I want to study abroad’… In the 1960s, […]

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Completely unconnected to the downgrade of USA by S&P, Mr. Deven Sharma stepped down as President of the rating company… Of course, USA is a meritocracy so it is not possible that White House would have made that fatal call..for the end of the tenure of Mr. Sharma… USA is not India…it is a free […]

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So many people are asking me: Is it a good time to buy shares? Is L&T a good buy….it has fallen by Rs. 400? Is it time to put money in the Nifty? Should I average my Reliance Industries – I had bought it at Rs. 1200! Should I buy Suzlon..I had bought it at […]

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