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Guest Post: Single Stock Portfolio

Serendipity the occurrence or development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. For me, meeting Sameer as his family lovingly calls him was no different. Its been 8 years of learning from some one who has an innate ability to question (with data) and think out of the box. Its a pleasure for me to have him...

Its the Quantum that is Important 3

Its the Quantum that is Important

Real Estate has given some crazy returns in the last few years and there is not denying that. We can always pick and chose stocks that have maybe given even better returns, but the big question is, are they even comparable. While there is always the case of stocks like Infosys / Wipro / Motherson Sumi, the net results if...

Trusting financial Intermediaries 4

Trusting financial Intermediaries

In response to a tweet of mine, Anupam Gupta (b50) tweeted this @Moneylifers @Prashanth_Krish such huge distrust in the entire financial distribution chain, including MFs? any reason? — Anupam Gupta (@b50) May 22, 2015 They key question is, should we trust those who claim to work on our behalf while having a business model that goes against that very logic....

Atrocious Targets 3

Atrocious Targets

Yesterday, a market analyst in a interview to CNBC claimed that Nifty was heading to 6750 based on his analysis of the Index. A few months back, another Analyst claimed that Nifty shall move way higher than what it was trading at that point of time. Going back further, I remember a Analyst mincing no words and being certain as hell...

Cigarette and Investment 11

Cigarette and Investment

Today, by a sudden hunch I wanted to know what if some one who smokes had invested a equal amount of money into the shares of the leading tobacco company (ITC). How would the Investment fare and what would be the current value. And before I say anything, let me say that I neither smoke nor have invested into ITC...