A few months back, I attended a conference on Financial Planning in Mumbai. One of the speakers at the conference was a well known CEO of an Asset Management Company. What I liked about his presentation was that when everyone else…
Read More How Stock Markets can improve your Living Standard – A Stunning Example!
First of all, I am overwhelmed with the responses I got for the financial concerns and issues survey conducted few days back. Thanks to you all, there are so many feedbacks that I am still reading through all of them. And…
It’s not easy to become rich. And while making such a statement, I am ready to ignore the definition of ‘Rich’ too. If you don’t consider yourself to be rich, then you already know how tough it is to become…
Read More Case Study – How a 10-Year delay can Destroy your ‘Get-Rich’ Plan?
Note - This is a guest post by Anoop. Anoop refers to himself as a work-in-progress investor, who combines fundamental value principles with a mildly contrarian streak. He believes a large part of investing success depends on overcoming our behavioral biases. Read…
Read More 5 Stock Picking Criteria for Those who don’t know much about Stock Analysis & Finance
We all want to be rich. And if this 'being rich' comes from the stock markets, there is nothing like it. Its glamorous... Imagine being able to tell everyone that you are rich and you don't need to go to…
Read More 40 Words To Question Your Notions About ‘Long Term’
Suppose your favorite car is a Honda… which is worth Rs 10 Lacs. And in your city, there is only one Honda dealer. Now this Honda dealer is facing some unprecedented personal crisis and decides to close down his dealership.…
This is the analysis of 3rd and final indicator which I track on a monthly basis in the State of Indian Markets. The previous two posts have analyzed P/E Ratio and P/BV Ratio of Nifty since 1999, i.e. a dataset of…
Read More Dividend Yield Analysis of Nifty in 2015 (Since last 16+ Years)
In continuation of the last post about P/E Ratio Analysis of Nifty since 1999, here is a similar analysis of Price–to-Book-Value Ratio. Like PE Ratio, I have been regularly tracking this 2ndindicator to gauge overall market sentiments at the State of…
Read More P/BV Ratio Analysis of Nifty in 2015 (Since last 16+ Years)
It seems like a season of Excel-based Analysis. You must have noticed that majority of the posts I have been doing in last 1 or 2 months, use Excel-based analysis. Though there is no particular reason for this, here I…
Read More P/E Ratio Analysis of Nifty in 2015 (Since last 16+ Years)
Hi FriendsMany of you have been sending links to interesting articles and ideas. I thank you all for your mails, as I now have a really long (& ever increasing) list of such articles. And in past few weeks, I…
I was reading an interesting Q&A session on Vanguard's site about investing, when I came across this small but remarkable example of how to explain anyone about benefits of long term investing. An investor named Rick Ferri shares his experience about…
Read More How A Father Convinced His Daughter Not to Sell Her Stocks in Panic
This post has been authored by Jae Jun of Old School ValueI’m not perfect.No matter how good you are as an investor, you are bound to make mistakes.Even the pros make plenty of big mistakes.Newton was brilliant but he made…
I was reading this interesting article herewhich made quite a lot of sense. The main theme of the write-up was whether technology is the culprit which is speeding up the market cycles?I am not sure whether it is (entirely) correct…
Hi GuysIt’s the second last Tuesday of 2014. Hopefully you would be getting ready to go on a vacation to celebrate your new years. So before you leave, I share with you three interesting articles.So here it is…Article 1‘All past…
I got this question from one of the readers yesterday. The State Bank of India’s Chairperson recently announced, that they were going to look at issuing shares with differential voting rights (hence the name DVR) to raise funds to meet…
Read More Mailbag: What are DVR Shares which State Bank of India (SBI) is planning to issue soon?
