I am reading ‘Taming the lion’ by Richard Farleigh. Been only through a couple of chapters, yet, I am hooked. His views are very clear and the reasoning is impeccable. Nice read and very informative.
On a regular basis, we hear analysts who predict multiple future events like “Sensex is about to re-trace to 12380 in [...]
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Antidote to market analysts..
Posted in General, Inspiration, Investments, Learning, money on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sir John Templeton
Posted in Charity, Inspiration, Investments, money, tagged Charity, Investments on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To quote from his obituary site,
As a pioneer in both financial investments and philanthropy, John Templeton spent a lifetime encouraging open-mindedness. If he hadn’t sought new paths, he once said, he would have been unable to attain so many goals. The motto that Templeton created for his Foundation, “How little we know, how eager to [...]
For those who missed the bus…
Posted in General, Investments, money on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Indian equity market is providing one of those very rare ’second chances’ for those who missed the bus first time. An extended opportunity (some predicts upto several quarters from now) in which good value stocks are available at a price points they were almost a year ago. The real value has only increased in the [...]
Dec ‘07 Report- India Inc growth story
Posted in General, Investments, Learning, money, tagged India's growth story, Investments on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Moneycontrol gives a very good quarterly analysis of India’s industrial growth story .
The full story can be downloaded from here. Dec ‘07 Earnings Analysis by Haresh Soneji, Shravan Srinivasula and Anichya Shah.
Profit after Tax (PAT) figures still look very pretty at around 30%, albeit lower than last years dizzying heights of near 45%.
This report proves that it is still well worth wading through the [...]
Value hunting…
Posted in General, Investments, Learning, money, tagged Investments on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Weekends allow me to catch up on the endless market jabber that went on in CNBC and moneycontrol throughout the week. Good to see this correction coming along before it was too late. It must have made a lot of newbie investors a little poorer but some lessons are learned the hard way.
I am quite convinced in the [...]
Three things
Posted in Guitar, Learning, Music, Resolutions, money, tagged Guitar, Gym, money on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently saw this ad for one of the super market chains.. it was about new year time, and they were asking you to change just one thing about you (with the help of some of their products obviously), rather than many things planned and none achieved.
It didn’t stop me from planning three major changes.
One is [...]
