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Linkfest: April 24,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Navinder Singh Sarao-Our spoofing hero (Bronte Capital)

Benaami transactions to become stricter (ET)

Investors refuse to bite ICICI Pru’s 6 Billion $ Valuation (ET)

Who bought those Sun Pharma shares? (Capital Mind)

Nomura Research Report:Britannia Industries (MyIris)

Should one opt for Postal Life Insurance plans? (MyInvestmentIdeas)

What are your actual returns? (Common Sense)

Buy Greek stocks if you want to gamble (MarketWatch)

A dozen things I’ve learned from Ben Carlson about investing (25IQ)

How rich would you be if you invested in the NASDAQ (BI)

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Anecdotes

PMJanDhanYojana: A banker’s experience

Source:Debashis Basu

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How to get into the Ivy League

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Linkfest: April 22,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

All eyes on MET forecast for monsoon (Mint)

Chinese stocks crater (Daily Reckoning)

The mystery of China’s gold stash (Bloomberg)

Dish TV: Strong signals (BS)

Timing mutual fund investments (Portfolio Yoga)

Tax planning Tips for 2015-16 (Good Moneying)

Understanding interest rate risk in debt mutual funds (FreeFinCal)

How to predict accounting trickery (Alpha Architect)

On negative interest rates (Aleph Blog)

Hot pants investing (RPSeawright)

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The perfect stock idea

“The perfect idea for Curtis,” says Jim Vincent, a managing director at AllianceBern­stein who has been pitching ideas to Macnguyen for years, “would be a company that’s profoundly oversold and hated and has a new CEO who has a chip on his shoulder and a heavy ownership of stock that’s locked up for a long time, in a cyclical business that just troughed.”-from Bloomberg

Any such candidates in the Indian market?