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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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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)

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Linkfest: June 25,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

India Infrastructure: Built on debt (FT)

Ambit: The Indian economy is under real distress (MoneyControl)

How does RBL Bank stack up? (Mint)

Basant Maheshwari shuts down his subscription service (RJ)

Nomura Research Report: Reliance Industries (MyIris)

VLS Finance:A cheap proxy for Relaxo Footwear (Gaurav)

Misconceptions about frugality (FreeFinCal)

How to spot crowded trades (Bloomberg)

Why Buffett may need a weak Board to prosper (MarketWatch)

Exploiting expectation errors to make money in the markets (AA)

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Linkfest: June 24,2015

Some stuff  I am reading today morning:

Why many professional investors don’t make any money (Mint)

How Stanchart cheated a Kolkata doctor (Moneylife)

SEBI halves IPO timeline to 6 days (BS)

How stock brokers are diversifying into new businesses (ET)

Its the quantum that is important (Prashant)

HDFC Research Report:Bank of Baroda is a bargain (MyIris)

Facebook is now worth more than Walmart (Quartz)

The loneliness of the short seller (NYTimes)

About booms,bubbles and busts (Ivanhoff)

Secrets,specialization and competition (Daily Reckoning)

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Linkfest:June 23,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Is the worst over for the markets ? (BS)

Greece Capitulates (Zero Hedge)

The “gas”tly story of Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure (Scroll)

Nestle: It’s reputation is 100 times more than Govt of India (ET)

The humbling of Jagdish Khattar (Mint)

Motilal Oswal Research Report:Tata Motors (MyIris)

Calling tops and bottoms (Irrelevant Investor)

When ordinary beats extra ordinary (Common Sense)

Dividend stocks and value investing (Alpha Architect)

10 Charts:The Sad State of the Financial Web (Fund Reference)