Saturday, October 31, 2015

Read,Learn,Improve – 31-Oct-15

Read,Learn,Improve – 31-Oct-15

Here's How Isaac Newton Remembered Everything He Read – Link here

A Timeline of Some of The Best Investment Books – Link here

The $3 Trillion ETF ‘Boom’ – Link here

Turn Off Your Chief Economist: GDP Growth Doesn’t Predict Stock Returns – Link here

How Chhota Rajan went from small-time crook to one of India’s most wanted gangsters – Link here

Are India’s public-sector ports being weakened to favour Adani Ports? – Link here

Taxis Can Still Survive Uber – Link here

Not Enough Women in China? Let Men Share a Wife, an Economist Suggests – Link here

The Dangers Ahead if Tech Unicorns Get Gored – Link here

The value of ‘overvalued’ stocks – Link here

The Futility of (Narrow) Speculation About Machines and Jobs – Link here

Moats vs Boats by Chetan Parikh – Link here

The most important question of your life – Link here

Why downside matters and some basic arithmetic – Link here

Hedge-Fund Priest: Thou Shalt Make Money -  A priest who moonlights as a hedge-fund manager – Link here

The Economics of Male Birth Control – Link here

Inside the Secretive Circle That Rules a $14 Trillion Market – Link here

This Man Failed A Paternity Test Due To His Vanished Twin’s DNA – Link here

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Read, Learn, Improve - 24-Oct-15

Read, Learn, Improve - 24-Oct-15

Intermediary Influence and Competition: Berkshire versus KKR - Link here

The Collected Wisdom of Seth Klarman – Link here

Our Brains Say Corporations Are People, Too – Link here

If it’s about saving the cow, reform the dairy industry first – Link here

Some Common Mistakes by Investors – Link here

The history of science has been centred for too long on the West, say Simon Schaffer and Sujit Sivasundaram. It’s time to think global – Link here

Unnatural Gas - The dubious ways of the environment ministry – Link here

Envy: Most lethal of all sins in Investing - Part I – Link here

Sakti3’s quest for a better battery: Hype, funding, promises, and then a surprise sale – Link here

Devangshu Datta: The discoveries that saved lives – Link here

If print media is dying, why are moneybags investing in it? – Link here

40 years ago the US sent Mexico into a financial crisis - and it transformed the narcotics industry – Link here

Crisis of Confidence in Financial Engineering – Link here

How to prepare for the right heir to take over your business - Subroto Bagchi – Link here

Why Uber Has To Start Using Self-Driving Cars – Link here

Raghuram Rajan and the online discount wars – Link here

Have we found a structure? (Interesting way how serendipity may lead to find alien/other life form) – Link here

Distinctions and Differences – Link here

Why CCD's coffee vending machines cost Rs1.15 lakh each – Link here

Monday, October 12, 2015

Read, Learn, Improve - 10-Oct-15

Read, Learn, Improve - 10-Oct-15

(Must Read) A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 – Link here

International courts and refugees – Link here

Sneaker Wars: Inside the Battle Between Nike and Adidas – Link here

Elon Musk Versus the Taxi Meter – Link here

Meet Robohon, Sharp’s incredibly cute robot smartphone – Link here

How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40 Million – Link here

12 Surprising Facts about Nobel Prizes – Link here

Kotak Gamechanger - Value versus Valuation – Link here

Ten Office Boys Per Foreigner? Indonesia Explains New Labor Law – Link here

You can learn to be creative, if you’re willing to embarrass yourself – Link here

The Trick to Making Better Forecasts – Link here

It Just Got a Lot Harder for Big Tobacco to Defend Itself – Link here

Who dies and who survives during a mass extinction? A tantalizing clue – Link here

What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like – Link here

The sex instinct – Link here

16 More Startup Metrics – Link here

Bitnation Registers First Refugees on the Blockchain – Link here

(Must Read) A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 – Link here

International courts and refugees – Link here

Sneaker Wars: Inside the Battle Between Nike and Adidas – Link here

Elon Musk Versus the Taxi Meter – Link here

Meet Robohon, Sharp’s incredibly cute robot smartphone – Link here

How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40 Million – Link here

12 Surprising Facts about Nobel Prizes – Link here

Kotak Gamechanger - Value versus Valuation – Link here

Ten Office Boys Per Foreigner? Indonesia Explains New Labor Law – Link here

You can learn to be creative, if you’re willing to embarrass yourself – Link here

The Trick to Making Better Forecasts – Link here

It Just Got a Lot Harder for Big Tobacco to Defend Itself – Link here

Who dies and who survives during a mass extinction? A tantalizing clue – Link here

What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like – Link here

The sex instinct – Link here

16 More Startup Metrics – Link here

Bitnation Registers First Refugees on the Blockchain – Link here

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Is Elder Pharma website hacked?

So got to hear that Elder India (a pharma company) CEO got arrested (Link here), so I googled Elder pharma and below is the page

Elder Pharma-1

Notice anything weird?...yup either site is hacked or I don't understand IT & Internet well :D

FMCG premium valuation - is this time Different?

Markets are weird, i was going through Barclays report on India Consumer dt 21-Sep-15 and one chart caught my attention, even thought I had idea about the point I never got it to put it in black & white. here is the chart

Barclay

most of the FMCG/consumer are trading at premium valuation compared to their respective historic averages. I would probably not pay too much attention to ITC, HUL, Titan and Jubliant as their premium is in range of 10%-14%.

While others like Britannia, Marico, Page Industries are trading at 99%, 91% & 71% to their historic valuation.

So I just thought to check performance of same stock post 21-Sep-15 and below is result

Barclay-2

Barring Bata, Dabur & Marico every other stock has gone up. makes me wonder how long will premium valuation continue, will Mean reversion take place or as they say "This time it is Different"

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Read,Learn,Improve – 3-Oct-15

Read,Learn,Improve – 3-Oct-15

The moral imperatives to a lie – Link here

Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot Under the Hood – Link here

What Cures Are We Missing Out On? – Link here

How to Catch a Spoofer – Link here

Bhushan Steel’s Dubious Restructuring – Link here

Unconventional Investments - Patience—all knowledge is cumulative – Link here

Give and take: the ethics of donating breast milk – Link here

10 Great Lines From ‘Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?’ – Link here

Why Good People Do Bad Things: A Conversation With My Daughter – Link here

Putting a Price Tag on Scandal: Sturm und Drang at Volkswagen! – Link here

A Universal Basic Income Is The Bipartisan Solution To Poverty We've Been Waiting For – Link here

She May Solve One of the Oldest Problems in Surgery – Link here

Why Commodities Are Back in the 1990s – Link here

High-Speed Trading Firm Deleted Some Code by Accident – Link here

The ‘Yelp for people’ app has everyone freaked out – Link here