Category: Data Analysis

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The Contrarian Fund Manager – Prashant Jain

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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Market Timing Luck – When should you Rebalance

Luck plays a large role in many a person’s life regardless of whether they choose to accept it or not starting right from the family they were born to. Luck is like the catalyst in a chemical reaction – small in proportion to the other chemicals out there but large in the role to play. When one is building a...

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Mayhem in Markets. Will it End

Every Bull and Bear market is different yet when the dust is settled, it’s all the same. What is different is the way the market behaves and the speed at which it acts. India has seen three major busts till date – 1992, 2000 and 2008. We hear those since they were related to either major scams or global market...

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Chart: Savings in Expense Ratio

Everything Is Relative said Albert Einstein. In stock markets, this is done by way of Bench marking our performance against another Portfolio. In the United States, ETF assets have grown at a compounded rate of 25% in the past decade as investors have shifted big time from Active Funds to Passive driven by consistent under performance by Active funds against...

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Buy this years Winners or Losers?

It’s that time of the year when you start finding analysts coming up with the Top stocks to buy. Basically there are three ways in which such lists are prepared – search for the best stocks of this year and recommend the same for the next year in anticipation of continuation of Momentum. Search for the worst stocks and recommend...

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Looking back at the Decade that went by

Days pass into weeks, weeks into months, months into years, years into decades and decades into centuries. It’s amazing how time flies.  2009 was a great year for the markets if you did not remember 2008. Nifty 50 went up by 75%, the best yearly change since its inception and yet it was still 18% below the highs of 2008....