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Just Dial Ltd IPO – Should you invest or avoid?
Details of the issue: Issue Date: May 20, 2013 – May 22, 2013 Face Value : INR 10 per equity share Issue Type : 100% Book Built Issue IPO Issue Size : 17,497,458 equity shares of INR 10 Issue Size : INR…
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How to make Decisions under Risk?
Have you ever come across a book which fundamentally altered your idea about yourself?
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The Most Important Thing: Timeless Investing Lessons from Howard Marks
Investors are constantly searching for the one secret that can help them outperform the market.
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The Most Important Thing – A review
Discover timeless investing lessons from Howard Marks’ The Most Important Thing—value, risk, margin of safety & second-level thinking explained simply.
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Investing Style Apt for Individual Investor – The Peter Lynch Style!
“Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot is probably going to run it.” These are the interesting and popular words of Peter Lynch, a Wharton MBA…
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Look for the Right Stocks – The Philip Fisher way
“I don’t want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.” These words reflect the modesty of Philip Arthur Fisher, who, with his 70+ years of successful investing experience, is considered the pioneer and the mastermind of the growth…
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Value Investing Principles: Lessons from Sir John Templeton
Most investors focus on price movements and short-term trends. However, long-term wealth creation is driven by discipline, valuation, and the ability to think independently.
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Charlie & the Lollapalooza Effect
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom- Charles T. Munger True indeed!
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Health Insurance: A Healthy Investment!
One cannot reiterate enough on the importance of having Health Insurance or Mediclaim. The stressful times we live in has made the list of lifestyle diseases longer.
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The Warren Buffett Menu
If you take a look at the Warren Buffett menu of investments, you’re sure to find the likes of Yum Foods (KFC & Pizza Hut), Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Hershey’s in the specials. Is it time to add some sauces? Yes! Warren Buffet’s Berkshire…
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Gap between Nifty & Nifty@MRP widens. What should you do?
The quarter ending December 2012 looked up to the Government for some major reforms through its Union Budget for FY13-14, to address the macro problems affecting the economic growth of the country, such as slow investment growth, high inflation and rising current…
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FCCB – Is it really cheap for companies?
FCCBs or Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds, as fancy as they may sound, are still a mystery to many. News and views, time and again, talk about companies issuing or redeeming FCCBs. Many speak of it as a cheap bond, as it enables…



