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Linkfest: June 23,2016

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Londoners cash their pounds ahead of Brexit (Zero Hedge)

Rajan-The exit that was inevitable (S Gurumurthy)

Stage set for India’s largest spectrum auction (Mint)

5 Questions about Subex (Gaurav)

Dividends you can trust (VRO)

GST Bill should just be the start (Bloomberg)

Basic financial mistake (Subramoney)

2 deadly wealth management assumptions (TRB)

Unquantifiable Risk (Common Sense)

Why some make forecasts (Stockcharts)

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Quotes

India=Consistent

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ForecastingFolly

Forecasting Folly:CLSA Edition

Hat Tip: Aniruddha Jain

Around 5 months back,CLSA came out with a “Sell” recommendation on Biocon which led to a very public Twitter fight between the Biocon CEO and an analyst.

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Biocon was trading around Rs.534 when CLSA issued the Sell Recommendation.

Its trading around Rs.723 today,up by almost 35% in the space of 5 months.

Forecasting Folly,anyone?

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Video

How the Chinese handle poor bank performers

The video below shows the staff of a Chinese Bank publicly spanked for poor performance.

Maybe we should take a leaf out of the Chinese…

 

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Links

Linkfest: June 22,2016

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Bookies see Brexit rejected (Bloomberg)

Max Ventures to list today (BL)

Textile stocks on fire (RJ)

Apple may open retail stores in India (NYTimes)

Interview with Charles Akre,CIO,Akre Capital (VRO)

Buffett: Going out on top (II)

12 things I’ve learned from Elon Musk about investing (25IQ)

Follow a good spending ratio (Financial Samurai)

Buy real estate as young as you possibly can (Financial Samurai)

Another crazy move from the FED (DR)