So many people today advising on equities that it is good fun talking to some of them. Two good offers that I have got recently are quite stunning…not really relevant for me but here is the story. First is a big deal in terms of size – it is worthwhile for the broker to do […]
I hope there is nobody out there with a gun to lynch me. Let me tell you about 2 contrarian calls that I had over the last 15-20 months, and which made me money. One was gambling that the dollar will strengthen – the world was willing to write it off. Moneycontrol carried the story […]
Research is always interesting – especially if you are getting paid for it! As a company we do research of a few hedge funds. The discipline that they show while picking stocks is quite amazing. There are various screens which they use – from market capitalization, no. of transactions in a day, value of trading […]
When a client asked me to visit a very successful doctor, I thought he wanted to invest some monies in the equity market. He actually wanted a shoulder to cry about the losses in the F & O market! A small story might be in place. There is a simple mortal who is praying to […]
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co. Ltd. (CIFCO) has done a great deal from the shareholders point of view. They had brought in DBS as a partner by issuing fresh shares to them at Rs. 140 a share. Now DBS has exited at Rs. 90 per share. It looks unfair on DBS but the relationship was […]
Many people known to me have read Robert Kiyosaki – largely the concept of Mr. North and Mr. South – famously known as Rich Dad, Poor Dad concept. There are many things that Kiyosaki says – let us take 2 of them today: 1. No money is made from real estate, equities, commodities….it is made […]
Many of us cannot resist that extra sweet…or that fried stuff. Well 30 seconds of pleasure on the tongue…then 30 years on the waist! How come we seek such short term pleasure in whatever we do? Why does short term trading seem more attractive vs. the long term investing, dividend yield, value investing…well I have […]