Freeze Your Strategy Now
The favorite pastime that most investors indulge in – index gazing. Investors spend months watching one number for that elusive signal. Often, […]
Crash your fears
Quick Edit: ‘The beast isn’t tamed yet’. The RBI governor said this in his own, long, pedantic style. The beast clearly is […]
Don’t predict. Prepare.
Quick edit: Short on guts, long on fear. This seems to be the mood of the markets. Delving deeper into the investor […]
Beyond the budget.
Quick edit: The budget day is indeed time for some quixotic stuff. The economists think like the citizen and the citizens think […]
Play Volatility by Turning It Around
Are budgets really relevant anymore? The picture painted by the budget is never bright. Deficits are here to stay. They always seem […]
The opportunity window is open.
Are you still wondering if it is a good time to invest in Indian equities? Or, are you waiting for the best […]
The Debt Hangover
Companies that take on too much leverage, stretch their market capitalization, and sell a perennially rosy picture to investors actually believe that […]
It seems to be a time to churn.
The results season has begun very well in January, 2013. Outperformance of expectations is absolutely necessary to bring confidence back. The fact that all three […]
The results don’t tell the story of tomorrow.
Infosys proved why it has been a bellwether stock for close to two decades. It silenced its aggressive critics with a characteristic […]
Consolidation Time
Quick edit: Presumption is dangerous when we try to predict the markets. When everyone presumes the same thing, the actual outcome often […]
2012-The year of the Equity markets.
At the beginning of 2012, we were of the view that equities were very attractively priced. The bad news was mostly factored […]
Herd Mentality
The markets always pray for a prophet to guide them. ‘If only we had this seminal mind that takes us through everything!’ […]