Ridham and Blues

Ridham Desai, MD of Morgan Stanley India, has been appearing on the financial networks lately talking about the Sensex correcting by … More

Another Indian Quant Fund

Reliance Mutual Fund (part of Anil Ambani’s empire) had recently converted a couple index funds (Sensex and Nifty trackers) into … More

Indian Quant Fund

Back in December 2007, Lotus India Mutual Funds launched India’s first “quant fund” called the Agile Fund.  I use the … More

Financial Comedy

Watching the Indian financial networks lately is better then watching the latest comedy flick.  The talking heads are just trying to … More

Indflation

The Sensex was down over 515 points today to hit a low for the year – 14571.29.  The reason for the … More

Derivatives Deja Vu

I just raced through the latest book from Satyajit Das titled “Traders, Guns and Money” and you would think it … More

DMA…Welcome to India

At last the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has agreed to allow Direct Market Access (DMA) which will … More

I am Liquid

Although at the moment the financial markets seem okay, there is still an undertone of pessimism. When thinking of the … More

Bear-ly Alive

Bear Sterns the 5th largest investment bank cracked under the credit crisis that is affecting the financial markets, it got … More