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Opinion

Commentary that affects the market

Lots of ups, downs, and sideways things happening in the broad market. Some news: FIIs are selling. FIIs have sold more than 8500 crores this month, till ...
Opinion

Managing your portfolio yourself

Does it pay to be actively involved with your investments? Rohit posted his comments on my earlier post (“Build Leverage“), and Prem has noted this ...
General

Is Quantum right here?

This one is a problem for you guys. Quantum AMC has an article in their July 07 newsletter saying thus: Let’s take a normal school classroom. During the ...
Stocks

The futures opportunity

India is the world’s largest single stock futures market, according to an article in FT. Meaning, nowhere else in the world do people trade stock futures ...
General

Build leverage.

Prem Sagar has an interesting post about active investing versus a fill-it-shut-it-forget-it (sorry Hero Honda) approach: Say, you have 50 lakhs to invest. ...
Opinion

All that glitters is not gold, Quantum

Quantum Mutual fund says they are a “different” kind of fund. They have no distributors (you must buy from them or from Personalfn or Equitymaster, ...
General

Hedge fund redemptions to hit Indian markets

Howard Scott writes (post on Seeking Alpha) that there may be a liquidity situation with hedge fund redemptions that could create a temporary downside: “If ...
General

Adding Twitter to my blog

Like Kaushik, I’m adding Twitter to my blog sidebar. Note that a) Kaushik is my co-founder at Moneyoga and b) my twitter posts are going to be small tiny ...
Foundations

Arbitrage funds are risky?

Are arbitrage mutual funds really risk free? PersonalFn attempts to debunk that theory saying: Buy-stock, sell-future is the common arbitrage used. Futures are ...
Foundations

How ULIPs and Mutual Funds make you pay

When you buy at the supermarket, you cringe if the cashier adds one item with the wrong price. You say “But it says 20% discount!”, and ensure that ...