I liked what Prashant Jain said in his newsletter and liked it a lot. It is a fantastic sales spiel that all equity salesmen can use. It also reminds me of what an editor of a leading Indian magazine once told me -‘Subra I have decided to do the story, now do not confuse me […]
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 […]
When you do not know something, there is risk. Many people who buy and sell regularly think they are traders. Well most of them are not. For being a trader you need trading skills, tremendous discipline, fantastic connectivity to the world markets – I know people who see the markets at 9pm, then 1am, then […]
About a year back we were all perhaps not so optimistic about the markets. Now we all are optimistic – what this means is the risk in the market has increased !! Risk is counter intuitive and it has always been like that for a long time. About a year ago when I saw the […]
This series could seriously be made into a book…but have decided to put one a day Client: Good Morning Haresh, how are you? Haresh: Good sir, market is looking a little weak…what do you think sir? Client: Yes, I agree, but what about Hero Honda? H: Sir, HH looks good, I feel. Client: Yes…good results […]
It is easy for fund managers and television anchors to talk about index being at a pe of 15…but let us not fool ourselves. There are many shares at pe of 58 and 38 – L&T, Tata Power to name a few. How does one deal with these companies? Well a little differently. Why should […]