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Weekend Mega Linkfest: March 24,2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

DMart’s success is built on Drucker’s truth (Jaggi)

Will Roger Federer ever be done? (GQ)

ScootaCar: India’s first bubble car (TeamBHP)

Startup Story: Flock (YS)

Why Renault took 10 years to succeed in India (FF)

Here’s how you can get Jio Prime for free (DailyO)

Spoof: Military aides try to cheer up Kim Jong Un (Onion)

Food History: Dal (BI)

The Offbeat Guide to Bollywood in Mumbai (NatGeo)

Ethical Traveling (LuxTravel)

What your sleeping position reveals about your personality (Brightside)

The Unfinished Book of Family (IQ)

15 most useful Google Apps you never knew existed (Air Association)

Dreams & Age (Shruti Shah)

Fear,failure and shame (Seth Godin)

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Observations

Why Morningstar Awards remind me of Govinda

Hat Tip : Amit Arora

Morningstar had an Awards Function recently where it dished out awards to Mutual Funds in various categories.

Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip was the winner in the Equity Small & Mid-Cap categories.

Its Fund Fact Sheet for Feb 2017 makes for interesting reading:

 

How can a Mutual Fund whose top 10 holdings include 4 stocks in the Nifty be classified as “SmallCap/Midcap” ?

Or maybe the Fund has these stocks in the perverse hope they will go from large cap to small cap !

Anyways, these Awards remind me of a very memorable interview of Govinda.

Once Govinda, the once very popular Bollwood star, was asked by an interviewer:

Q:Aap Ko ab tak koi Filmfare award kyon nahi mile?

He replied: Lekin maine paise bhi toh nahi diye !

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Chart

Chart: MFs Vs DIY

Source: Become a Better Investor

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Links

Linkfest: March 24,2017

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Radical proposal for NPA resolution (Arun Jaitley)

The cash cow that is Hindustan Zinc (ET)

How to ride the IPO wave (FE)

Indian DVRs and their underlying (VR)

UBS: Not so fast on India stock rally (Bloomberg)

Kumarmangalam Birla has got the better deal (BL)

How Indian family businesses survive (Forbes)

5 Questions to ask before you buy a stock (Howard Marks)

US Stock market has become v risky (Meb Faber)

The “Retail Apocalypse” is officially descending on America (ZeroHedge)

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Chart Paper

Chart:How imports have destroyed India’s Paper Industry

Source: Bloomberg