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Of all the Industries, the one that is loathed despite its laudable achievements is the world of finance. If not for the inventions in finance, most of us would still be bartering stuff around and hoping that you have what I need and you need what I have. While inventions in other industries are lauded, in the world of finance,...
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...
There is a wonderful quote from the Oracle of Omaha wherein he says Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. Its amazing how true that statement is in the financial field while not being true in any other profession. For example, the other day,...
In my last post titled “Throwing Spaghetti Against The Wall” I showed how after picking up 3 portfolios whose stocks were randomly picked, I could still beat the overall return of the market over a time frame of 10 years. In continuation of the same, I decided to to a double blind test on picking random portfolios and comparing them...
This post has been driven by a deep discussion I had with Nooresh Merani today and hence the credit for the idea would remain with him 🙂 While study after study has shown that retail investors are unable to match the performance of the Index let alone beat it, it has not stopped a army of advisors and technocrats from coming...
BSE being a pretty older exchange (in fact, its the oldest exchange in whole of Asia) has the distinction of having the highest number of listed securities compared to NSE. But as we all know, Quantity doesn’t have to mean Quality. On most days, we see around 3000 stocks getting traded on BSE vs 1300 on NSE. The average price...
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