The mutual fund industry is going through a lot of crisis. New money is not coming in, people from other industries are not too keen to join the industry, aum is falling. Of the new money that is coming, it is clear that the older and bigger funds are doing well, but the smaller ones […]
I can choose the headline first and then fit the story! Confirmatory bias we call it. If i decide to do the following stories, I can : 1. Sell Infrastructure funds, they have underperformed 2. Buy Infrastructure funds, they have underperformed, but now they will start performing 3. We need infrastructure so buy infra stocks […]
“So who still believes markets don’t work? Apparently it is only the North Koreans, the Cubans and the active managers.” — Rex Sinquefield, co-founder and board member Dimensional Fund Advisors Obviously what Rex means is that if you believe in equity markets you just need to be in the Index and fund managers do not […]
I have said this many times in the past….the easiest person who can be blamed is the distributor..so blame him! A couple of months ago Moneylife carried an article by Mr. Balakrishnan as to why investors should use the services of a bank, and not that of an individual distributor. I found it amusing, but […]
Seen some fantastic stories on the mutual fund industry. There is only one problem, you cannot drill down from the story…if you do that, you will quickly find ‘page not found’. See some typical terminology ‘There is rampant mis-selling in the mutual fund industry – and this should stop’. So out of sheer curiosity you […]
It is funny how many people want to get returns far (the operating word is far) greater than the index! Over a 54 year period my father has got a return greater than 14% p.a. in Hindalco. This is not good, it is great. The two important things are ‘r’ the rate of return and […]
Not sure whether I started the trend…but a few days ago I asked this question. In fact I am not even convinced that I should have dematted my dad’s Tisco, Telco, Coromandel fertilisers, Colgate, …etc. but that is done. Clearly I did it because I saw it was way to easy to demateralise shares of […]