So the old saying that ‘Money does not buy happiness’ is true, and a Princeton-Gallup study has data that backs it up. Take a look at this link: Happiness is Love – and $75,000 The study by Princeton Nobel laureates does say that money does count (or, let’s say, is a significant variable!) for happiness … Read more
A slightly old-ish book (first published in 1994), I chanced upon this book and picked it up again at the library recently, though I had read it a few years back. While after so many years, it may not seem to have anything new, given that there is so much written about Buffett since 1994 … Read more
Last weekend, my friend Swami complained over coffee to my broker friend Jigneshbhai: “For the past 3 years, your favorite fund manager, Prashant Jain of HDFC Mutual Fund, has not beaten the market index, and you told me that he manages the best performing funds in the country.” Clearly Swami was not in a good … Read more
My broker friend Jigneshbhai had asked me and Swami to come over to an investor camp last Sunday for our evening coffee. At that event, a retail investor took center stage. Inspired by Sachin Tendulkar’s heart-touching farewell speech, the retail investor made an emotional speech thanking everyone for his experiences in trying to get rich … Read more
“The Sensex reaching a new record high around diwali muhurat trading is a bit like Tendulkar hitting a century in his 200th test.” “Normally, no one could have asked for a better coincidence to pump up spirits” said my broker friend Jigneshbhai as we sipped our coffee. “But unlike the celebrations around Sachin’s 200 tests … Read more
“The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013 was awarded jointly to Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller for their empirical analysis of asset prices” read my friend Swami from his iPad, as we were having our weekend coffee after a long time. Looking up from his … Read more
In the classic Sherlock Holmes short story, ‘Silver Blaze’, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle chronicles the story of the missing race horse and the murder of its trainer. One of the popular Holmes stories, the plot in ‘Silver Blaze’ hinges on Holmes observing the ‘curious incident of the dog in the night-time’. Here is the dialogue: … Read more
One hundred lesser would not have made Sachin Tendulkar a lesser legend in anybody’s eyes. Like the last four runs that Sir Don Bradman did not score did not make him any lesser a batsman. Or the last successive Wimbledon title that Federer failed to win in a row did not make him a lesser tennis player in … Read more
My friend Swami definitely does not believe that he is ‘average’. Some study said that 9 out of 10 people believe that they are above average. Which means that the average belief is that ‘I am above average’. This comes to the fore during performance appraisals in companies. Atleast 70% of the people are supposed to … Read more