In an earlier post I had mentioned that 3 shares fell into a theme for me – good companies went into bad times (eps was down), realised its mistakes and took corrective action. The 3 shares were Essel Packaging, Cholamandalam Finance and Themis Medicare. I have no clue WHY, but Themis Medicare went up from […]
It is still a White Man’s World. And risk perception is decided by the White man. So if he says risk is in emerging countries, well it is time we told the White Man that risk is to be priced that is all. Frankly the Western World is in denial about the Greece problem. There […]
Whenever the receptionist in our office wears a pink dupatta, equity markets go up by at least 50 points. I have no clue whether you would buy shares based on something like this. However, now I am being offered shares of Talwalkar (the fitness people) priced at a price-earning ratio of 44. The logic? Subra, […]
If you have wondered what are soft commissions here is the answer. There are some legitimate expenses and some not so legitimate expenses. Soft commissions are what sales people call ‘entitlements’. It could be in the form of a contest – the top 100 winners go on an all paid trip to South Africa, Goa, […]
Most financial planners and personal portfolio managers are questioning their basic assumption of asset allocation. In the year 2008 asset allocation failed. This of course is their conclusion based on a set of data. Data is accurate but the conclusion seems to be a little flawed. In the years from 2002 to 2007 (when Mr. […]
March is the month that insurance companies, mutual funds, their agents, banks, relationship managers, etc. love! Throughout the year sales of all these products have been taking a hit. All life insurance companies are funded by the strong and rich parent – SBI, Hdfc, Icici or the foreign counterparts. One branch of one life insurance […]
This is of course the old classic question – “When there is a festive sale and you can get 3 shirts for the price of 2, what do people do?” People rush to the shops. However when the 21000 index is available for 12000 what do people do? They sell. Well if you have a […]