Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
Does dollar based investing matter? We look at why an investor should look at the dollar based returns of his or her investments
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
Great talk by Vishal Khandelwal at the Value Investing summit in Kuala Lampur. He quite neatly captures the pitfalls and challenges to successful long term investing. It is a great starting point for investors looking to understand how to approach investing in financial markets. You can find the presentation slides to this talk on his website: Safal Niveshak. I particularly liked the way he […]
Friday, September 28th, 2018
The last few years has seen a global shift toward sustainable investing. It started with investors avoiding putting money toward companies that harm the environment, but over time this has evolved into investments that take into account climate change, social issues and responsible corporate citizenship. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is thus a new […]
Friday, August 31st, 2018
About a year ago we had done a post on the shrinking Alpha in large cap mutual funds. Globally, there has been a shift of financial flows from active to passive management because of the inability of active managers to outperform their benchmarks consistently after fees. For a long time India was able to buck this […]
Monday, August 27th, 2018
There has been a lot of buzz about the potential for financials in India and investors have been willing to pay a huge premium for well managed private financial institutions. Taking note of this, there has been a rush for such companies to list on the bourses. Already a number of NBFCs, insurers and asset […]
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
Josh Brown had a comment on a WSJ article which talked about how, since 2011, you could have focused either on corporate earnings growth or the negative commentary around FED tapering. If you had focused on the FED narrative, you would have missed out on the massive 161 per cent rally in the S&P 500 […]
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
Nice interview of S Naren by Saurabh Mukherjea on Moneycontrol in their new Coffee Can Investing Series. A few excerpts from the video: On the importance of a support system to help improve your investment calls: So, what I guess Mr. Kamal Chaddha did was he got together a set of people like alcoholics anonymous. These […]