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We are close to ending 2022 and at this juncture it seems that the markets will close in the positive for the 7th consecutive year. The last time we saw a similar 7 year consecutive gain was between 1988 to 1994. The high of 1994 was next broken only in 1999. I hope that we won’t see a repeat of...
The other day I was talking to an acquaintance who was looking at building a portfolio of stocks. Nothing wrong perse but he neither had interest in understanding the markets nor had the time to devote to the subject (there is a reason all the big investors have been full time investors from long time). I explained that I felt...
The biggest news this month was the meltdown of the Crypto Exchange – FTX. FTX was not just any Crypto Exchange but at the peak was the second largest exchange and backed by the who’s who in Venture financing. Venture finance is risky with very few outliers making up for the losses of the majority of ventures that are backed....
On Twitter, one is known more by the number of people who follow you than by what you have accomplished. A fund manager who manages thousands of crores in active funds and who is one of the few who has been able to beat the benchmarks, whose tweets are mostly data based is followed by a fraction of what many...
My way to looking at markets has always been Top-Down. I focus more on Macros and less on the Company that I finally may invest into for my view is that the Marco decides the larger trend which is critical. Everyone from Charlie Munger to Howard Marks to the local stock broker Analyst say, don’t pay much attention to macroeconomic...
A couple of months back, I bought a stock not because it came in one of my models but because it was recommended by a very good friend of mine who is also pretty successful. The trigger came because of 2 reasons, One the guidance he claimed the company had provided to a friend (who is another excellent investor) and...
Peter Lynch is seen as one of the greatest fund managers even though the period where he managed real public money is of a time frame that is extremely short when one compares him with other great fellow investors. Prashant Jain has been managing what today is known as HDFC Balanced Advantage Fund (but earlier known by other names) for...
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