Hat Tip: Joe KusnanWhen there is a stock-market boom, and everyone is scrambling for common stocks, take all of your common stocks and sell them. Take the proceeds and buy conservative bonds. No doubt the stocks you sold will go higher. Pay no attention to this— just wait for the depression which will come sooner or later. When this depression— or panic— becomes a national catastrophe, sell out the bonds (perhaps at a loss) and buy back the stocks. No doubt the stocks will go still lower. Again pay no attention. Wait for the next boom. Continue to repeat this operation as long as you live, and you’ll have the pleasure of dying rich.
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Mega Weekend Linkfest:March 14,2014
Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Amit Jatia and McDonald India’s 15 year wait for success (Forbes)
Inside Sahara Dessert (Outlook)
Why I hate cricket (SunandaVashisht)
How to solve a problem like Swimfisher Airlines (Newslaundry)
The mystery of Malaysia Airlines 370 (Atlantic)
The world’s oldest crown (NewYorker)
A dog’s life (Dawn)
Steven Cohen identified in new insider trading suit (BusinessWeek)
Joe Biden in winter (Politico)
In Pictures:How Kejriwal finally got Narendra Modi’s attention (UnrealTimes)
Travelogue:Zero Point,North Sikkim (TeamBHP)
What Juhi Chawla and Supriya Pathak did next (JaiArjun)
India’s Democratic Pageant (ShashiTharoor)
Movie Review:Gulaab Gang (GreatBong)
10 Rejection Letters sent to famous people (MentalFloss)
This post is in continuation of my coat tailing series (see here)
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HDFC Standard Life Insurance is one of the largest Life Insurance Companies in India and is a prominent investor in the Indian Equity Markets.
It’s significant holdings as on 31 Dec,2013 as per stock exchanges is as given below:
| Symbol | Entity | No of Shares | % | Date End |
| ALBK | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co. Ltd. | 7451356 | 1.37 | 201312 |
| ANDHRABANK | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 6953371 | 1.18 | 201312 |
| APOLLOTYRE | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 9483631 | 1.88 | 201312 |
| ASHOKLEY | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd | 41307026 | 1.55 | 201312 |
| BAJAJCORP | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 2170418 | 1.47 | 201312 |
| BAJAJELEC | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO. LTD. | 1941298 | 1.95 | 201312 |
| BAJFINANCE | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 896746 | 1.8 | 201312 |
| BEML | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 466516 | 1.12 | 201312 |
| BPCL | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | 8550818 | 1.18 | 201312 |
| CADILAHC | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 3016944 | 1.47 | 201312 |
| CENTURYTEX | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd. | 1664038 | 1.79 | 201312 |
| CROMPGREAV | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 13843095 | 2.2 | 201312 |
| DHANBANK | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 2111032 | 1.95 | 201312 |
| DISHMAN | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED & HDFCSL Shareholders Solvancy Margin Account | 3117439 | 3.86 | 201312 |
| DIVISLAB | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LTD | 3072433 | 2.31 | 201312 |
| EXIDEIND | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co. Ltd | 28474992 | 3.35 | 201312 |
| GMDCLTD | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. | 8440630 | 2.65 | 201312 |
| GODREJIND | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE Co. Ltd. | 8118065 | 2.42 | 201312 |
| GODREJPROP | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 2499956 | 1.25 | 201312 |
| GSPL | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 11817538 | 2.1 | 201312 |
| HEIDELBERG | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 10201577 | 4.5 | 201312 |
| HINDPETRO | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co.Ltd. | 7922949 | 2.34 | 201312 |
| HTMEDIA | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 3206617 | 1.37 | 201312 |
| IGL | Hdfc Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 6690214 | 4.78 | 201312 |
| INDIACEM | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 4592508 | 1.5 | 201312 |
| INDIANB | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 6083799 | 1.42 | 201312 |
| IPCALAB | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 1725936 | 1.37 | 201312 |
| JKLAKSHMI | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 5883652 | 5 | 201312 |
| KEMROCK | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 264963 | 1.3 | 201312 |
| LITL | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 31098819 | 1.29 | 201312 |
| ORIENTBANK | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 3818094 | 1.27 | 201312 |
| ORIENTCEM | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 3711788 | 1.81 | 201312 |
| ORIENTPPR | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO LTD. | 3811788 | 1.86 | 201312 |
| PFC | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 14914558 | 1.13 | 201312 |
| PRISMCEM | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 9138421 | 1.82 | 201312 |
| PTC | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 19708562 | 6.66 | 201312 |
| RECLTD | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 18371346 | 1.86 | 201312 |
| SANOFI | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 359957 | 1.56 | 201312 |
| SHREECEM | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 1199463 | 3.44 | 201312 |
| TATACHEM | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 4673012 | 1.83 | 201312 |
| TATAGLOBAL | Hdfc Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 7475462 | 1.21 | 201312 |
| TORNTPOWER | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited | 6196151 | 1.31 | 201312 |
| UNIONBANK | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 15241610 | 2.42 | 201312 |
| UNITEDBNK | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd | 6732391 | 1.21 | 201312 |
| UPL | HDFC STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO LTD | 10666303 | 2.41 | 201312 |
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Linkfest:March 14,2014
Some stuff I am reading today morning:
The Buffett formula-How to get smarter (FarnamStreet)
NDA Govt prospects leads to buying in PSU stocks (ET)
CBI probes MCX-SX license grant (Mint)
Rebuilding India (VinayakChatterjee)
Supreme Court to Nokia India:Don’t take us for a ride (FE)
Why are so many traders committing suicide ?(Bloomberg)
Are malls over? (NewYorker)
Paper Trading Stocks:Why you should avoid it (BrianL)
The one thing every successful startup investor knows (DailyReckoning)
How Modi can put out the fires lit by the UPA (FirstBiz)