It is amazing how people will not do simple things to make money! Start early, index your investments, do not interrupt the compounding process…..but will continue to do stupid things. In 1600 it was tulips, in 2012 it was Social Media! The fall in market capitalization of Groupon is about US $ 20 billion, and […]
Today’s Economic Times carries an article about SEBI wanting to create a committee to view/ review the qualifications by the auditor. Sounds good? Let us see what a sister organization MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) is doing. They get the significant Indian companies to file their Annual Returns in XBRL format. In the XBRL […]
Two Judges of the Supreme Court have passed the Judgement which has said that there was a 2G scam and have given their reasons. Everybody is happy with the judgement – Prashant Bhushan, Anna Hazare, Raja, NDA, etc. So far so good. Let us see what was (should be?) the government’s role in Infrastructure development? […]
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 […]
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 […]
O M G!! You are saying good things about mutual funds?! This was the reaction of about 40 people I met last fortnight at a ‘pre-wedding’ food party at a Gujarati friends ‘so called’ party. The food was amazing and for a non 5* setting Rs. 1900 per plate was what I thought well, too […]
Well not long ago in India there was a business group called the Ambani group. When we met as journalists or as analysts we were told that the younger brother Mr. Anil looks after finance. Then one day Mr. Anil Ambani wanted out and the elder brother said ‘let us split’ . So they split. […]