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Lemons ripen faster

Source : The Ken

Bad startup investments are par for the course. There’s even a commonly used term for them: lemons. 

Thus the VC adage, “lemons ripen faster”.

Meaning, bad investments tend to become apparent faster than good ones.

True for listed investments also

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Market Kya Lagta Hai?

Source : Mint

 “Market kya lagta hai?”, at least in the Indian context, is a futile preoccupation. 

Samplethis: MSCI India barely produced any return in dollar terms for 10 years between November 2007 and November 2017.

If, in November 2007, one had gazed at the crystal ball and said that the market would yield nothing for the next 10 years, the statement would have been apocalyptic, but that’s what actually happened.

And not even the staunchest bear would describe the last 10 years in Indian equity markets as apocalyptic.

That’s because over longer time horizons, money is made or lost in individual stocks whose performance does not have much to do with what the broad market does. 

Despitethe lost decade for the headline index, 86 stocks, with market capitalization in excess of $500 million, quintupled over that time frame (multiplying five times in 10 years implies a healthy compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, of over 17%) .

We keep reiterating that our basic unit of thinking is stocks and not market averages. Like all investors, we own stocks in our portfolio and not index futures.

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A fun way of losing money

Source: Karvy’s India Wealth Report 2017

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Culture eats strategy for breakfast

Hat Tip: Ian Cassel

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3i Infotech: Company Ek, Focus Anek

Company appears to have a spray and pray approach

With the impetus to expand the impact of our product portfolio, we are focusing on disruptive technologies, such as – IoT, Blockchain, SMAC, Robotics, AI, Machine Learning, Telematics & Cybersecurity to facilitate expansion of market reach of our customers said Padmanabhan Iyer, Managing Director & Global CEO, 3i Infotech