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Lately, many people have been asking me about investing in India and it got me thinking about investing in general.
I’ve realized that it’s very tough to beat the index year over year, this image (although dated) shows what i mean. I’ve read that many managers under perform the indexes, but I recently saw the concrete [...]

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If you were hoping to get hot Starbucks coffee in India you better bring it on your flight to India. The wrath of Kamal Nath hits again, he’s the head honcho at the Commerce and Industry Ministry. According to the local papers, there was some confusion within the government over what exactly passes as [...]

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If you’ve ever been to a Big Bazaar, Pantaloons or Central then you have Kishore Biyani to thank for it. He’s the guy behind India’s first wave of retailing. I bought the book for Rs. 99 at Big Bazaar (go figure) and thought I might gain some insight into his empire. Unfortunately that [...]

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Yup, it’s been 3 years since I first started blogging at celestri.org. This will be post number 181, which works out to 1.15 posts per week. It’s been pretty interesting to be able to write down my thoughts and then get questions and comments from all over the world.  In the process it’s also [...]

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If you thought that the Indian Sensex was the only stock index that hit a historic high this past week you’d be wrong. The Running of the Bulls festival has just ended in Pamplona, Spain. However, the bull markets continue to run up in every other country, some of them include: US Dow [...]

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Sometimes the best way to trade is not via technicals or fundamentals but instead the buy and forget strategy. During the dot com bubble one of my buddies (Will P.) was always talking about Oracle and how great a company it was and blah, blah, blah…So I decided to buy the stock. On [...]

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It’s that time of year where Capgemini and Merrill publish their annual World Wealth Report. It’s mostly a fluff report, but I like to look through it for several reasons.
1. See the geographic distribution of the declared wealth
2. Their definition of a High Networth Individual (HNI) and Ultra High Networth Individual (UHNI). An HNI [...]

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I went to Hong Kong last week for the first time and I was blown away by the city. It happened to be the 10 year anniversary of the handover back to China, so as you can imagine a lot of festivities around that. It also happened to be the 10 year anniversary of [...]

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