Alpha Ideas

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)