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Mark Mobius on Emerging Markets

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Experts on emerging markets are far and few between. One of the big boys is Mark Mobius of Templeton.  Mobius has spent over 40 years working in emerging markets and picking stocks while most others were still picking their noses in school. I had a chance to hear him speak back in Oct 2007 in [...]

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Tags: India · Investing

Club 272

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Club 272 is not some new club in India, but it’s the number of MP’s that the UPA government needs to keep the existing government going. The last 48 hours have been great watching all the political stuff happening around the trust vote.  I had no idea Kamal Nath and Snoop Dogg were long lost brothers since [...]

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Tags: General · India

Ridham and Blues

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Ridham Desai, MD of Morgan Stanley India, has been appearing on the financial networks lately talking about the Sensex correcting by 50% form their peak levels of 21000.  If that is true we still have another 30% to go…ouch.  Over the past 4 months he is one of the few guys setting realistic expectations for the [...]

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Tags: India · Investing

Indian Quant Fund

July 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Back in December 2007, Lotus India Mutual Funds launched India’s first “quant fund” called the Agile Fund.  I use the term “quant fund” lightly when talking about Agile because it’s really an equity mutual fund dressed up.  Most people would agree that a typical “quant fund” selects securities based on quantitative analysis, in agile they do [...]

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Tags: India · Investing

Indflation

June 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Sensex was down over 515 points today to hit a low for the year - 14571.29.  The reason for the bearish performance was inflation, the gov’t announced inflation was 11.05% a 13 year high mainly on the back of increased gas prices.
But the fun doesn’t stop there, several people I’ve spoken to are putting their [...]

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Tags: Business · India · Investing

The Business of Cricket

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

We are just days away from the launch of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on April 18th.  There was a ton of hype around the end of January when the 8 teams were sold to the highest bidders,  the owners were a mix of industrials and Bollywood - surprising I know.  Over USD 720 million [...]

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Tags: Business · India

DMA…Welcome to India

April 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

At last the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has agreed to allow Direct Market Access (DMA) which will facilitate wire speed Straight Through Processing (STP) on the exchanges. If the previous sentence is as difficult to understand as Kevin Federline’s role in life then you may want to pass on this blog [...]

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Tags: India · Investing · Technology

Vodafone’s Sarin on India

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Vodafone’s Arun Sarin is originally from a small village in central India. He left for the US to attend graduate school and more recently the CEO of Vodafone PLC. Recently, Sarin gave an interview to the WSJ and one of his quotes has stuck with me. I’ve been in India for 2 [...]

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Tags: Business · India

Ferrari 612’s in Mumbai

February 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Ferrari sent two 612 Scagliettis to India for the Magic India Discovery tour. The 12-stage event starts and ends in Mumbai, covering 7,000 miles of the subcontinent along the way, kicking off on February 25 and ending on May 8. The video and pics are from the launch at the Taj Palace.
Pics from the [...]

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Tags: Cars · India · Mumbai

Building the Ambani Empire

February 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

What timing, I finished reading Polyester Prince on Feb 10th and on Feb 11th the Reliance Power IPO from Anil Ambani got listed on the Indian exchanges. Finding this book was about as easy as getting shares in the Reliance Power IPO. The book is apparently banned in India on the request of the [...]

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Tags: Books · Business · India