Over the last few days as we have seen a selloff in several EM currencies there has been renewed talk of an acronym “Fragile 5” coined by Morgan Stanley. India being part of this group of countries which includes Turkey, Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia is one of the most absurd things that I have […]
Read MoreAAP’s Economic Logic, Not Good for India The germination of AAP as an offshoot from the Anna Anti Graft movement has raised a lot of expectations in the minds of the Indian Middle Class and the poorer class due to the pain that they have suffered in the hands of the Ultra Corrupt UPA government […]
Read MoreThe revival of the investment cycle will require a concentrated attention from the new central government. High fiscal deficit has reduced their abilities to provide incentives or contributions for investments. Under the circumstances they need to facilitate by removing hurdles on projects rapidly. Poor capacity utilizations in industries like Capital Goods, Cement, and Automobiles etc […]
Read MoreIn the first two parts of the series I talked about the various kinds of mutual funds and about Equity MF schemes. Now let’s come to the fixed income part of the Mutual Funds. Now the fixed income part of the mutual funds essentially serves the purpose of treasury management of companies and in the […]
Read MoreOver the last 5 years we have seen a collapse of private investments in India. Gross Capital formation which moved from levels of 20-22% of GDP in the late 1990’s till 2003 peaked out at 34% in 2009-10 and has since come down to 28%. The fall in Private sector investments has been sharper and […]
Read MoreAs I sit to write my prognosis for the year 2014 I am also looking back at the last two years and how the forecasts went. My view at the height of pessimism at the end of the year 2011 was that the markets would rise by 25% in the year 2012. The forecast turned […]
Read MoreI hope that the first article of profiting from mutual funds was found to be interesting by readers. The purpose of these articles is educational to start with and then in later episodes I will get into evaluating individual schemes and fund houses too. Now as we talked of the last time that there are […]
Read MoreAfter having spent more than 18 years investing in the markets & one and a half decade in the Mutual Fund Industry and having seen the way Mutual Funds are sold and bought I thought that it was important for me to now educate existing and potential investors about investing in Mutual Funds, what kind […]
Read MoreThe rupee and its gyrations have impacted the performance of the economy as well as financial markets significantly over the last several years. Though we might make a case for ignoring the impact on INR movements on the Financial Markets its impact on the real economy cannot be ignored. Under the circumstances, for an economy […]
Read MoreOver the last six months the talk of FED Tapering has created huge volatility in global financial markets; equities, bonds and currencies. The first part of the Tapering talk was clearly an attempt by the US FED to take the bond markets out of euphoric states where it clearly saw that US 10 year bond […]
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