Crystal Ball Gazing: Stock markets in 2022
The best thing about quantitative easing is that it works in practice but not so in theory. Ben Bernanke, the then US Federal Reserve chairman, said that in 2014, the…
Investing lessons from the pandemic
Narratives are significant vectors of rapid culture change, zeitgeist, and economic behaviour. Nobel laureate and renowned economist Robert J. Shiller wrote that in his book on Narrative Economics in 2019. There…
How to Overcome behavioural biases in Investing
Not many people invest in India's stock market. Merely 3% of India's population directly get involved. In America, that is 55%. Retail mutual fund investors have assets equivalent to 16%…
MARKETS AT DIZZYING HEIGHTS – WHAT CAN GO WRONG?
The 2008 global financial crisis or GFC was called a Black Swan event. It hit the global financial system like never before. A marquee bank like Lehman Brothers does not…
China’s cup of Woes continues to overflow
Terms like ‘Tsunamis’, ‘pandemics’ and ‘contagions’ have become a regular feature in Asia over the past few decades. According to estimates thrown around, the Chinese real estate developer ‘Evergrande’ owes…
SPAC – the next big investment opportunity!
First thing first, let’s get the definition out of the way. The SPACs are shell companies, in other words, a “Blank Cheque” company, created for a specific purpose of acquiring…
Of Bear Markets, Millennials and Generation Z
Equity markets, by their very nature, are volatile. Stock prices, even of the best Companies, go up and come down all the time. The unending quest for the listed company…
Rise of the Retail Investors
Burgeoning age of Retail Investors As the skies halted for the global movement of people, pilot Abhishek had to pause flying at high altitudes. Sandeep’s auto ancillary facility didn’t need…
Inflation-proof your portfolio
With the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, central banks globally are facing a tightrope walk between inflation and economic growth. Earlier this week USA reported largest gain of 0.9% (for June…
GameStop & Start of the Retail Investing Revolution
Over the course of the last one week, GameStop – a US based omni-channel retail company that offers gaming and entertainment products across 5000 stores over 10 countries became the cynosure of Investor attention and wild frenzy as a previously unthinkable saga started unfolding at break neck speed.
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