small investor, financial literacy, financial awareness, financial inclusion….what an amazing array of words we have created for bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen, capital market pundits to meet and eat! Frankly if you want to climb the Himalayas you need to join a Gym get into good shape and then climb the Himalayas. In the investment arena you […]

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The Central Government have specified bonds to be issued by (i) Industrial Finance Corporation of India;( IFCI ) (ii) Life Insurance Corporation of India; (L I C) (iii) Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited; and ( I D F C) (iv) a Non-Banking Finance Company classified as an infrastructure finance company by the Reserve Bank of […]

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As a person who has spent upwards of 3 decades in Money related activities, it is fairly obvious that I have seen many financial mistakes. If I ridiculed a person and said ‘Idiot this is not the way to handle money’ he would have felt bad and just disappeared. So financial mistakes have to be […]

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“Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.” – Warren Buffett Making a projection to impress the […]

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What a move by the US regulator and followed by the European regulator. Great. Now you cannot short sell. However, please remember you can always buy put options and make money. Unless regulators around the world allow free markets to play, there is no cribbing about how the market behaves. If somebody has short sold […]

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