Category: Commentary

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Making market returns is easy. Beating the market is very hard

The title of this post was taken from the following tweet by Rohit Chauhan When I first read the tweet, I was stumped. If just 5% of the stocks were able to generate better returns than the Index, there is really no point being in the business of selecting stocks. For a while its been said that beating the markets...

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The Era of Disruption

20 years back, we bought and sold stocks through a broker whom we called physically, bought books by going to a bookstore, purchasing essential items and groceries meant once a month visit to the local kirana wala and went out for Lunch to the nearest hotel even if we despise the taste and lack of variety. Today, most small brokers...

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How we landed up here.

It was 2013, the Year of the Snake according to Chinese Zodiac. In India though, Investors were running away from the markets like they had seen a snake. Between mid 2009 when UPA came to power for the second time to October of 2013, Investors in total withdrew more than  37 thousand crores from Equity Mutual Funds. Then again, why...

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Uncertainty – The life of an Entrepreneur

I never met V G Siddhartha even though I stay close to his home, was a member of Bangalore Stock Exchange where he started off initially and one I had been part of for more than 2 decades and more importantly, started my journey into markets as a Primary Broker under Sivan & Co, his company that is now known...

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Stop Playing the Blame Game

If Investing is a Journey, 90% of such journey’s are left mid-way. Every co-passenger you meet on the journey seems to know what his final destination is – unlimited riches. Financial freedom alone doesn’t cut it for what is freedom without recognition as being a great investor / trader. Markets move in cycles and we all know what goes up...

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Learning the Wrong Lesson from Bogle.

Human Life Expectancy today is 79 years. Most of us live out the lives in a fashion that none other than family members can remember one after we pass away from this world. Those who achieve greatness in their lifetime are generally remembered for at least one more generation before the memory stats to fade away. Peter Houston, invented the...