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Weekend Mega Linkfest: June 26,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Sikhs who saved Parmesan (BBC)

Was studying in IIT worth it? (Scroll)

MAM Ramaswamy:The last King of Chettinad (Open)

The lesser known Wipro sibling (Forbes)

Will the Sun set on Maran’s empire ? (Newslaundry)

This is how Uber takes over a city (BusinessWeek)

The man who sleeps in Hitler’s bed (Guardian)

Zane’s secret (Washingtonian)

Is financial repression here to stay? (Project Syndicate)

Travelogue:Lakshadweep (Team BHP)

The Ladhak Taxi Mafia (Team BHP)

The Hrishikesh Mukerjee Book (JaiArjun)

The violent legacy of India’s partition (New Yorker)

Gossip:Why Lalit Modi back stabbed Vasundhara Raje (Gossip Guru)

How Indians responded on Twitter to Bobby Jindal’s nomination (BuzzFeed)

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Pre-IPO Opportunity in the shares of ICICI Lombard

ICICI Lombard is India’s largest private player in the general insurance space (auto,health,travel etc)

Recently, there was an interesting news article how private General Insurers are eating the lunch of Govt. Insurers

The Annual Reports of the Company can be obtained from here and the latest disclosures from the company can be obtained from here.

A limited quantity of its shares are on offer for sale.Kindly note that you need a NSDL demat account to avail this offer.

For those interested,please email me at Alpha Ideas.

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Linkfest:June 26,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Investors chase PSU midcaps (ET)

A week in India (Akash Prakash)

How Datson’s Lab screwed investors (Moneylife)

Foreign investment in insurance-error or rethink? (Mint)

Nomura Research Report: Infosys (MyIris)

Target Date Funds (Subramoney)

Making the money business work at Birla (Forbes)

Jurassic World: 7 Reminders for Investors (Fortune)

The dirty little secret advisers won’t tell you (MarketWatch)

12 Things I’ve learned from Todd Wenning about investing (Total Returns)