A fascinating interview…a must watch for all options traders.
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The hypocrisy of Adi Godrej
In an interview to Tehelka, Adi Godrej made the following startling statement:
Why should it (compensation) run out soon? It can be invested. It can be made into a much bigger value than land. Land has the lowest appreciation of all assets. The best investments are in stocks. Somebody should advise them(farmers) to invest it in mutual funds so their wealth will rise faster.
Now this is fairly amusing coming from a man who is one of the biggest landlords in Mumbai.The Godrej group fought tooth and nail against the Maharashtra Govt in various courts to prevent the Govt from acquiring its lands under the Urban Land Ceiling Act.
At that time, Adi Godrej did not take the money and invest in stocks or mutual funds.
Along with hypocrisy, what is also appalling is the sheer financial illiteracy displayed by Adi Godrej.Land has given one of the best returns in India…much better than most stocks.
But not to worry.Indian farmers have more sense than these captains of industry.Its unlikely any farmer will heed his advice of selling their land and investing in stocks.
The only people who should worry are the investors in Godrej stocks !!
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Linkfest:Sep 10, 2012
Some stuff I am reading today:
Jet Airways:Living to fight another day (BusinessLine)
Its raining money (FirstPost)
The man who fell to earth (Mint)
Kurie:The doodhwala visionary (BS)
Using DCF to value stocks (SafalNiveshak)
Is India a country of thieves? (CapitalMind)
Soros:The survival of Euro is assured (BusinessInsider)
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Why forecasts don’t work?
Short Answer:There are too many unpredictables or “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns”
This reminds me of another great poem by Cavafy called Nero’s deadline
Nero wasn’t worried at all when he heard
the utterance of the Delphic Oracle:
“Beware the age of seventy-three.”
Plenty of time to enjoy himself still.
He’s thirty. The deadline
the god has given him is quite enough
to cope with future dangers.Now, a little tired, he’ll return to Rome—
but wonderfully tired from that journey
devoted entirely to pleasure:
theatres, garden-parties, stadiums…
evenings in the cities of Achaia…
and, above all, the sensual delight of naked bodies…So much for Nero. And in Spain Galba
secretly musters and drills his army—
Galba, the old man in his seventy-third year.
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Linkfest:Sep 6, 2012
Some stuff I am reading today morning:
Gold glitters in Sept (Bespoke)
Worst may be over for Ballarpur Industries (Mint)
India rules out ban on sugar exports (Bloomberg)
RBI Watch:Indian perspectives on turmoil in global economy (RBI)
McDonalds wooing of India continues (NYTimes)
803 Years of Inflation (ClimateerInvesting)
World Bank appoints Kaushik Basu as Chief Economist (WSJ)