The most misused and least understood ratio is the Price Earning ratio or the P E Ratio….Almost everybody who ‘invests’ talks about P/E ratio. I am sure there are many people who do not understand the full form but use it nevertheless. Well when a company earns Rs. 20 as its annual earnings, and is […]

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  When you have lived long enough on the planet, you have one great thing – the ability to look back.  Obviously I can look back on investing and can look back about 33 years – when I started. It is also the same age as the relationship with my friend / philosopher / guide […]

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If the CFOs of Tata Steel, Tata Motors, TCS, Indian Hotels came to Mr. Ratan Tata and said we want to set up a mutual fund and a life insurance company how do you think will he react? Most probably he would say we have a mutual fund and a life insurance company so please […]

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Here is an article which almost looks suspicious because it is in The Economist. Also coming at a time when Mr. Ratan Tata is being badgered by the media this is a nice article. Read on…it is nice..by the way I am an unabashed admirer of the group…my Mom grew up @ Jamshedpur and still […]

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I am not even sure whether a conversation or strategy which some of us use should be part of this blog. However as an experiment here is a trend in some of our portfolios. I have no clue whether it will work in the future, it has worked in the past – say 20 months. […]

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Once upon a time long long ago I was part of an organisation which did the statutory audit of Hindustan Petroleum. My contempt for Public Sector Units only grew greater. However the people working in some of these organisations were far, far superior to some of the guys I met in the private sector. However […]

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O M G!! You are saying good things about mutual funds?! This was the reaction of about 40 people I met last fortnight at a ‘pre-wedding’ food party at a Gujarati friends ‘so called’ party. The food was amazing and for a non 5* setting Rs. 1900 per plate was what I thought well, too […]

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