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The topic is something I have written about earlier but given the nature of the market, it keeps propping up as one or the other side unearths what seems to be new evidence which show why one is better than the other. In the United States, its more or less settled that Active funds cannot beat simple ETF’s and this...
Year end posts are obligatory in nature. So, this is a list of stocks that went up, this is another list that went down and hey, this what I think will happen in the coming year. Yet, if you really dig the data you can find some interesting facets that may have been easy to miss otherwise. 2016 was literally...
In 1994, Morgan Stanley came up with its first India based Mutual fund aptly named Morgan Stanley India Growth Fund. Investors who had no clue about Mutual funds, felt this could be a IPO opportunity similar to the forced IPO’s of multinational companies in late 1970’s. Forms were sold at a premium and even before listing, the stock was trading at...
Asset Allocation / Commentary / ETF / Mutual Fund
by Prashanth Krish · Published 28th September 2016
In today’s Mint, Monika Halan has a post titled “When to fire your financial adviser“. While I am sure she knows way better than me when it comes to advisers, I felt that she had used a large brush without providing contexts when its right and when its wrong. So, here I go as usual with my thoughts; MH: An adviser...
The big news this week was about the inflow into Vanguard, the world’s largest mutual fund company which attracted $198.4 billion in the first eight months of this year drawing money from Active Mutual Funds and even Exchange Traded Funds as investors poured money into its low cost Index funds. On the other hand, we in India recently had a SIP...
Yesterday was a pretty lucky day for me. Some kind soul had triggered my stop loss on Wednesday and while I had cursed him that day and the next day as well, man, was I happy to be neutral in markets as it tumbled on the opening bell in response to the Britain Referendum results. Too many (and I am...
Unlike new age media sites which use click bait article headings such as the one above to enhance their page views (and hence garner more advertising revenue), this is no click bait article though it on the surface would seem as such. Instead, if you are a Mutual Fund investor (Large Cap), you are theoretically gifting away a fully paid...
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