Author: Raoji
Mittal’s Empire
Linkfest:Feb 06, 2013
Some stuff that I am reading today morning:
Madhu Koda, aides blow 3500 Crores on bad investments (ET)
Investors lost 1.5 Trillion Rupees due to insurance misselling (Mint)
In 2013, even smart investors will need dumb luck (Firstpost)
Why Michael Dell really had to take Dell private (BusinessWeek)
The Seller’s dilemma (TRB)
1 Billion $ startups no longer the anomaly (NYTimes)
Jim O Neill’s favorite books (BusinessInsider)
The Dept of Justice’s complaint against S&P (Dealbreaker)
Investors increasingly disenchanted with hedge funds (Alpha)
Buying stocks gingerly (InPursuitofValue)
Nitin Mangal is an equity analyst who wrote the IndiaBulls Report for Veritas last year.
According to FE,
The co-author of the 105-page report on the Indiabulls Group has already been subjected to more than 100 hours of grilling by the police in Mumbai. On Monday, the Bombay High Court directed Mangal to be present before the cyber crime investigation cell of the Mumbai Police later this week. While the court told Mangal to cooperate with the investigation, it continued with the interim relief that bars the police from arresting the analyst who has shifted, with his family, to Indore ever since the court battle began.
According to the first information report, Mangal along with Monga and Veritas has been charged under Section 384 (punishment for extortion), Section 500 (defamation), Section 506 (criminal intimidation) and Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code, and Sections 66A and 75 of the Information Technology Act.
Came across this funny SMS. No offense is meant to any community ! (My relatives are Punjabis, my neighbors are Gujaratis and my friends are Marwaris )
How a Gujarati does business:
Investment: 1 Crore
Sales:1 Crore
Expenses:50 Lakhs
Profit:50 Lakhs
How a Punjabi does business:
Investment: 1 Crore (All the money is borrowed)
Sales:1 Crore
Expenses:1.5 Crore
Profit:50 Lakhs (Don’t ask how !)
How a Marwari does business:
Investment: 1 Crore
Sales:2 Crore
Expenses:1 Crore
Loss: 1 Crore (Was actually expecting profits of 2 Crores on a 1 Crore investment!)
So when you ask them, “how is life?” they reply:
Gujarati: Chale che !
Punjabi: Changa Hai ji, Vadhiya !
Marwari: Manda Hai, Bhaiya !