The Facebook IPO is obviously too hot and something that everybody will watch. It is like a MJ release – you cannot ignore it. However the question is: Will it be the next Microsoft? Well not really sure – but MS grew AFTER it went public. In case of FB the client acquisition is already […]
a few days back I did a story asking are Indian shares expensive – and I said please look at the American markets..they look cheaper. Similarly I have been a big critic of talking of a MARKET being high or low. You have to keep looking at the components of the market..some are always expensive […]
Not sure whether I am alone in crying hoarse about the pending US default…but I always get some support from the American media! One of the biggest players in the American bonds market (perhaps the largest) is as skeptical about the bonds issued by Uncle Sam… let us take the worst case scenario of the […]
Yesterday a friend showed me the working of Reliance Mutual fund – he does not want to share the work publicly though. He took a very (perhaps not practical) view that an investor does a Rs. 1000 SIP in each and every equity fund of reliance mutual fund right from the date of launch of […]
I am very excited about doing a series of articles on lying with figures. One of my students sent me a Wharton study and the following line caught my attention. I thought it should be shared. Many of you have seen the ratings done by many websites about fund performance. “We are the world’s best […]
The late Behram Contractor (far popularly known as Busybee – I used to buy Evening News, then Mid-day, then Afternoon Despatch and Courier ’cause he used to write) used to start his Saturday column with the same words – and if i remember right his column was called “Round and About”. He would say […]