Category: Links

Wishing all readers a Merry Xmas.

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Brokerages devise new strategies to lure customers (ET)

Santa rally eludes Indian bourses (Mint)

Insurance,coal reforms takes ordinance route (FE)

ROE is key for picking stocks (R Balakrishnan)

A difficult dialog on real estate (Subramoney)

Pune flat buyers go on candle lit protest against builders (Ravi)

Child plans of Mutual Funds (GoodMoneying)

10 most popular investing excuses (Rich Hagen)

BWM’s little secret (Beyond Proxy)

2014:The year that nothing in investment decision making worked (Fortune)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Superstar investors of India (BusinessWorld)

Why investors are staying away from Anil Ambani stocks? (ET)

NSEL Case:Investor moves court against Motilal Oswal (Mint)

Rs. 20,000 Crores laundered through penny stocks (BS)

Foreign investors are selling (CapitalMind)

Howard Marks critique of Technical Analysis (Prashant)

Don’t believe what you read (Morningstar)

Invest in a potato before these 4 things (CFAInstitute)

Is there such a thing as “intrinsic value” ? (BasonAsset)

Conversion-At their wits end (MediaCrooks)

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

How investors should reboot strategy after spotting signs of trouble (ET)

Reforms key for Power Finance Corporation (Mint)

Azim Premji Trust picks up 1% stake in HDFC Life (BS)

15 Simple New Year Personal Finance Resolutions (BasuNivesh)

One of the worst arguments in finance (CommonSense)

Invest like George Costanza (Malice)

Two hidden virtues of successful traders (TraderFeed)

Oil Price Shock:Primary,Secondary and Collateral effects (Aswath Damodaran)

Ready for $20 oil ? (Bloomberg)

Stop trying too hard.You will never be Warren Buffett (Alpha Architect)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

FIIs expected to rush back in early 2015 (ET)

Three profound transformations in rural India (Mint)

Marico:Back to basics (BS)

Nifty Valuation Analyzer (FreeFinCal)

Converting black money into white in the stock market (CapitalMind)

Gold survives against all odds (BL)

Strategies can beat the market,you can’t (Irrelevant Investor)

For investors,its a perfect time to go back to the basics (WP)

Hedge funds rip off investors (Swedroe)

The promise of smart beta (ReseachAffiliates)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Chairman Rao (Caravan)

The enduring legacy of Rajinikanth (Open)

North Korea is not funny (Atlantic)

The world’s biggest car company wants to get rid of gasoline (BusinessWeek)

How Yahoo’s CEO lost her way (NYTimes)

All LinkedIn and nowhere to go (Baffler)

How to maintain your car in top shape (TeamBHP)

Pakistan after the Peshawar massacre (ProjectSyndicate)

Thanking Bangladesh (Shashi Tharoor)

Little known facts about partition (Sanskriti)

Raj Kapoor as innocent and masochist (Jai Arjun)

The devil made me do it (Great Bong)

Dr.Pathak for Bharat Ratna (GossipGuru)

Hedge funds had a good year in India (Qz)

Peshawar massacre:How our media made it about India (Newslaundry)