I am not even sure whether a conversation or strategy which some of us use should be part of this blog. However as an experiment here is a trend in some of our portfolios. I have no clue whether it will work in the future, it has worked in the past – say 20 months. […]
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. […]
Indian market today is a very difficult market to please. Is the end client really difficult to please, I am not sure but the distributor is very difficult to please. And the last mile connect is the real tough nut to crack. Whether it is your cable television provider deciding not to give you UTVi […]
Famous words of Mr. R Subramaniam (Subhiksha, Subiksha fame) The problem is that Indian retail was doing too much, too soon. The kind of investments and expansion that Indian retail was attempting was unprecedented. We ourselves added 1,500-plus stores in under 24 months — even for a small store format, this would surely be a […]
Gold: buy or sell? Most mothers (in India for sure, internationally, I do not know) are telling their sons and daughters – Gold is far better than the shares that you have. In the last 1 year it has given 32% return vs. -45% in your shares, so buy gold. To most common people this […]
A couple of weeks back I had written a post about how the slow down will hurt some industries. Fairly clearly those companies (industries) which have a high cash burn ratio – and who cannot reduce fixed costs will bleed first. Financial services industry – life insurance, broking retail, general retail – are all vulnerable. […]
As the equity markets have fallen 50% in this calendar year, 2009 markets have to be up! How appealing – and could it be wrong? You bet it can be. I am a little cramped for data – I have the March ending indices and just ran through it. It is not true at all […]