What are primary and secondary markets? When a fresh set of shares ARE CREATED – that means a new set of distinctive numbers of shares are created – it is called a Primary market offering. Prospectus is issued, application forms are printed and the public is asked to subscribe to the shares being offered. […]
People have been asking me to write about Equity Research…and I cannot even make a list of topics in Equity Research, because it is too damn vast. So let me try to say what are risks that a common man / lay investor should avoid. This is the first among them…. IPOs are priced in […]
In the past 7 years the Sensex has not really gone anywhere! You could not have believed it in 2007 if I had told you “Well the Sensex is at 21,000 and it will remain here for the next 7 years”. Well I would have been right at least till the 8th of Feb….not sure […]
What is an IPO? IPO stands for Initial Public Offer. When a public limited company needs money for its own expansion or its shareholders require a market or liquidity for the shares that it holds, the company makes an offer to the public to invest in its shares or debentures. Such an offer is called […]
Stocks and Shares What is a stock / share ? A share is a share in the share capital of the company. A shareholder is a part owner of the company, there fore has voting rights. He is entitled to a share of the profits of the company after all the other claim holders including […]
Why am I doing a post like this? Simply because the amount of CONFIRMATION that people want BEFORE they invest is just awesome. So if in an investing span of say 50 years you spend 45 in getting confirmation of what will work, when will you invest? The more qualified a person is, the more […]
The Indian equity market is becoming like the Wimbledon – happens in England, but for foreigners. Similar our equity markets are based on Indian stocks (what we think as Indian like Hdfc, Icici, …) but largely a play by the FII. Let us look at what happened to the Retail Indian Investor: a. Invested in […]