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Charts: July Repeats April, Gets a 6% Return on the Nifty
With the Nifty staying firmly above 11,000 for the first time since January, the month of July returned 6%. This is the best month after April, and takes 2018 ...
Foundations
Guest Post: Tough times don’t last, High ROC companies do
This is a guest post by Anoop Vijaykumar. Anoop is a SEBI Registered Investment Adviser and writes about equity investing at thecalminvestor.com. Follow him ...
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Premium: Buybacks are back! DB Corp Shows Some Potential
There's some movement in the buybacks. But it seems that the trade is getting seriously crowded. Too many people are jumping in! So, this time we avoided ...
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Fortis Hospitals has an upcoming Open Offer – Worth a Chance?
Is there a play here for a savvy Investor? Since IHH is infusing additional funds and also taking over management control, there is a compulsory open offer ...
Foundations
Does the Retail Public Buy Falling Knives?
Flipkart has what it calls “The Big Billion Dollar Sales”. Amazon calls it “Great Indian Sale”, Brick and Mortar businesses give away discounts in the ...
Opinion
The Unintended Consequence of making Sanitary Pads 0% GST
The government finally made 0% duty for Sanitary pads. This is after much demand, back and forth, of this particular tax cut. But the road to hell is paved by ...
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Premium: The Richly Valued Indian Insurers Pay Out More than Half Their Premium Earned In Commissions and Surrenders
Today, India has around 24 Life Insurance Companies to choose from though only four of them are listed on the stock exchanges. In this post we will be looking ...
Opinion
Bonus Shares: The Unintended Complication That Increases Long Term Investors' Tax Liability
The concept of bonus shares is weirdly fascinating. It’s just the moving of something from one account in the books to another. It’s total ...
Charts & Analysis
Charts: Core Inflation Goes to 6.4%, The Highest Since 2014
Here’s a headline you might not read. Inflation came in at 5% for June 2018, but we have something really important happening in the details. The ...
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Fundas – Understanding the Quality of Earnings
As part of our funda series, in this post we try and decipher the quality of earnings that companies post. Lot of emphasis is given on the Income or Profit and ...
