Some stuff I am reading today morning:
The outsized returns from NSE’s alpha index (Mint)
Sanand:The new global auto hub (BS)
Mutual Funds: Do’s, Don’ts and Myths (FreeFinCal)
Is your demat account safe ? (Subramoney)
Andhra Bank Employees take to the streets to recover NPAs (Capital Mind)
How to come out of debt (Basu Nivesh)
Follow the money (RPSeaWright)
Illiquidity and bubbles in private share markets (Aswath Damodaran)
ISIS is now the Fourth Reich (V S Naipaul)
An Orgasm App? (UCBerkley)
Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The humiliation of Manmohan Singh (Open)
Rahul Gandhi: Invisible prince of a vanishing kingdom (Outlook)
North East: The Alaska of India (IDR)
Is it time for Jews to leave Europe? (Atlantic)
Your personality could be making you fat (NYMag)
A history of Richard Branson’s hare brained hobbies (Vanity Fair)
Who choose your career path for you? (Forbes)
The trickiest part of a penis transplant:Finding a donor (Smithsonian)
Is prayer the answer? (Aeon)
Inside Baghdad’s brutal battle against ISIS (Rolling Stone)
Israel’s victory of fear (Project Syndicate)
Disney’s 1 Billion $ bet on a magical wristband (Wired)
Facebook Wall: Bangladesh loses to India (Unreal Times)
Auto Talk: German cars, ridiculous prices (Team BHP)
Gossip: Gautam Thapar’s wife deliberately scratches neighbor’s Bentley (FS)
Some stuff I am reading today morning:
Index watch: Nifty may give way to Quality 30 (BL)
Modi’s black money crusade looms over property bubble (Mint)
IPO Review:Inox Wind (OneMint)
Fund Review: Edelweiss Absolute Return Fund (FreeFinCal)
Nomura Research Report: Power Grid (MyIris)
Too good to be true investment stories (Points And Figures)
3 Chicken Ways to rebalance your portfolio (Morningstar)
Ray Dalio: Tightening at the end of the supercycle (Bridgewater)
How exactly the world ends (Bill Bonner)
Pakistan’s most amazing fund manager gets no respect (Bloomberg)
Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Fed keeps rates unchanged (BS)
Property hangover: It’s a buyer’s market (ET)
No sweetness in sugar (Mint)
Anti-Land Act is actually anti-growth and anti-progress (Firstpost)
European stocks are hitting all time highs (Dana Lyons)
25 Central Banks have cut rates this year (Charlie)
Time to look at Kotak Mutual Fund? (Subramoney)
Nomura Research Report: Torrent Pharma (MyIris)
The fuzzy insane math that is creating Billion $ Tech Companies (Bloomberg)
The anti-Modi Christian agenda (MediaCrooks)
Some stuff I am reading today morning:
Govt seeks to put IRCTC on high growth path (ET)
IMF warns of huge equity outflows when US hikes rate (FE)
Atal Pension Yojana is a bad deal (Mint)
Equity MF holding is less than 2 years for 50% investors (BS)
5 Things to do before March End (Apna Plan)
How SEBI’s Mutual Fund Utility Platform can benefit investors (MyInvestmentIdeas)
5 Signs of a good Annual Report (ClearEyesInvesting)
3 most dangerous words in investing: “In My Experience” (Psy Fi)
In praise of short sellers (New Yorker)
Appraisal Arbitrage (Alpha Architect)