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Once in a way, one comes across a Mutual Fund that decides to take the bull by the horns when it comes to transparency. Mutual fund are products that are sold on the basis of past performance – the better the fund performs against its peers and the benchmark it targets, the easier to sell. While active management (to which...
When Gold, especially in form of Jewelry is bought, its not bought by calculating the CAGR returns it shall provide over the next 3 / 5 years. When one buys a home for his own use, he is not calculating how many times it can become in the next few decades. But not calculating really mean that we are ignorant...
One of the most abundant trees once upon a time in Bangalore as in many other cities across the south used to be the Coconut tree. Thanks to the fact that literally every part of it is useful, the tree is also called a Kalpavrisksha. Growth of city has meant a rise in number of trees being cut down to...
It was nearly 10 years ago that I received a big Cheque thanks to selling off a asset that had suddenly appreciated in value much beyond what I had imagined. What I did with that was a kind of turning point (in a bad way) in my life. But this post is not about the stupidity I did, its about...
Mutual funds are on a roll. With Gross inflow of 23,000 Crores and a Net Inflow of 15,000, collections have been never better for the Industry. One key reason for the growth has been the spectacular returns by few funds in the recent past. Recently, Economic Times report wrote about 5 funds that doubled within last 3 years (Source). Fintech...
Like it or not, we are all labelled one way or the other – from the Religion we profess to the Country in which we happen to be born among many others. For South Indians, anyone born in the North is a Bihari regardless of whether he is from Bihar or from Rajasthan. In the inverse, anyone south of the...
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...
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