Top 5 in-Famous Financial Frauds in India
This post is about some famous financial frauds in India over the last few years. These certainly are not the only ones and as in past, in future there will be more. Harshad Mehta (1990 – 92) Known as the big bull – is perhaps the most familiar name when it comes to financial frauds in […]
Foreign Portfolio Investors Regulations, 2014
In order to have one integrated policy on foreign investment, the Indian securities market regulator i.e. Securities Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) has introduced the Foreign Portfolio Investors Regulations (FPI), 2014. The FPI Regulation, 2014 replace the existing Foreign Institutional Investor Regulations, 1995 (FII regulation applicable to institutional investors, such as mutual funds, pension funds, banks and […]
Crude Oil Wars – How India could benefit from OPECs high supply policy?
Over the past few weeks the entire world’s attention has been focused on crude oil prices. Some countries are benefiting immensely from the recent meltdown in crude oil prices while others are being slowly driven towards bankruptcy. Countries Benefiting – All countries which rely on crude imports. Mainly India and China. Countries Suffering – All oil exporting […]
Latest Portfolio Holdings |Top Performing Mutual Funds
Portfolio Holdings as of 30 October, 2014
Super 6 Dividend Income Stocks
Motivating fact about investing in Dividend income stocks – If you had invested Rs 77,000 in ITC shares in the year 2003, today you would today have in excess of Rs. 18 lakhs if you kept reinvesting all dividends. (See explanation at the end of the post [1]. Factors considered: Historic and current Dividend yield (1 […]
Fearless Trading and The Art of Making Tough Investing Decisions
I think television anchors and ‘stock market experts’ on T.V. have a really difficult job. Advising others about making tough investing decisions while being live on T.V. is surely no mean task. Imagine having to answer a guy who asks you this (with no time to rehearse): Trader: “I have 100 shares of Jindal Steel […]
Best Equity Mutual Funds in India
The analysis presented below is based on the performance and current composition of 3 market leading funds as of 14th November 2014 in their respective category. There are thousands of funds to choose from and within these funds there are the ones with high concentration on equities or debt. There are the gold funds, infrastructure funds […]
Picking Value Stocks – My Best Stock Purchase Decision
May be I have written so much about stocks which did not do well, asset classes (like Gold) which are certain to destroy investor wealth and about other negative biases about investing that I have started receiving mails like this: Sir – I follow your blog regularly but over the past few weeks you have written that […]
Investing in Gold – Good or a Bad investment option?
In January of 2013, when the gold price was at its peak (trading in the range of ~ Rs. 32,000/ 10 gram), I had written this in my e-book – The Honest Truth: . . . . . . “In addition to fixed income and equity investments, there is a lot of buzz about investing […]
E-Commerce Companies – Why Valuations and Future Plans Matter
A man once discovered a large treasure consisting of an unquantifiable amount of gold and diamonds buried under his house. He started digging and realized that at some point the entire treasure will come out of the earth. To make most of the situation and the frenzy created by his discovery he decided to invite […]