A few days back I wrote a piece on ‘Young, Glamorous, Riskless and Broke’. This was about the kids born in the 1980s. Let us take a kid born in 1987 – would have graduated in 2007-8 and finished his/her MBA in 2009. This was not a great season to graduate, but would have found […]

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Writing one post on ‘why fundamental analysis is difficult?’ is a brave attempt! Very good chance that a few thousand people will call up and REFUTE (which is all right) and many many more may call in to say, there is much more to it. Both are absolutely true. When we got a balance sheet […]

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Let us consider 2 investors A and B (I thought a long time before choosing A and B was wondering whether to use real names, then thought it does not matter!). They both have the same income, went to the same school, married similar girls, have similar risk tolerance levels…well they are almost twins. A […]

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Was wondering what are the few sentences that a person should be taught to be in the financial media business. Here are a few: As we had said earlier, the market is now decoupled. Even though the markets went down yesterday in US Indian markets have gone up. Indian markets have gone down, in keeping […]

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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. […]

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  The average return on equity investments (without reinvestment of dividends) is about 18% over the past 31 years. Does it mean that every year you got 19%? The answer is no. Such ‘zero standard deviation return’ is possible only in CERTAIN debt instruments. In equity investments there have been years of +242% as well […]

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In the current year with the deadline of 30th November, 2011 staring at us in the face, is it possible for companies to comply with Mca norms? I mean do we have the time to convert all our companies, accurately, and file it with MCA – if we do it on our own? This is […]

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