Ralph Nader said about General Motors long ago. I am saying this about the Indian Equity markets, now. The problem with investors, wannabe investors, scared of the market investors…is they keep learning, but most of the times the learn the wrong lessons. ‘I have made money on ESOPs’: Well if you had Esops of Indiainfoline, […]
Sometime in 2007-8 the BSE decided to use something called corpfiling to get the information from the public. This replaced the earlier method of collecting information. When a company conducts a board meeting or discusses its quarterly results…it is necessary to tell the stock exchanges and the regulator what was the outcome of the meeting. […]
In the pre Sebi and pre NSE days, the BSE (actually it used to be called The Stock Exchange, Mumbai) used to do its settlement once in 15 days. Then it came down to once a week… This meant a lot of weak players would do transactions for a much longer period than what they […]
Everybody and his uncle and aunt wants to talk about the great Indian entrepreneur..and how he is great. Well he is not great, he is generally s…ed. If he had a choice he would be in a happy government job, assured of an indexed pension, take leave to see the country…and generally be counting his […]
Sebi has discontinued the EDIFAR system w.e.f April, 1, 2010. In view of this, Stock Exchanges are advised to carry out the consequential amendments in Equity Listing Agreement i.e. removal of words, “and also through the EDIFAR website…..listed companies. Now a new portal viz., Corporate Filing and Dissemination System (CFDS) put in place jointly by […]
The number of posts that I have written about my investing blunders keeps me wondering how or what kept me going at all! This blunder is perhaps the biggest of them all. A quick recap of my life and timelines is necessary for this. In 1986 I qualified as a CA and got into practise. […]
Hey do not see..we are changing! Well the NSE and the BSE have decided to change the timings for the market operations from 4th Jan, 2010. Who benefits? Really do not know..but let us see the stakeholders… The Stock Exchange, Mumbai, was started as an association – non profit making company – and was supposed […]