In a bull market nobody reads annual reports. If you do, you can come up with interesting stuff. Look at some details of a hot stock Bartronics

In today’s world, it does not pay to read the balance sheets of companies.
If you have that bad habit, you will not make money in the market. That was the quick lesson that came home to me very recently. I met someone who had purchased shares of a...

A book that will improve your spending and investing habits

I recently read a wonderful book called The Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford which answers many questions related to business, governments and economic policies, without taking you into the depths of textbook economics. It brings economics to the reader in a delightful manner, with real-life examples that are easy to relate...

If SEBI has its way, investing in mutual funds will become cheaper

I have been arguing over the past few years that if an investor chooses to bypass the distributors to buy mutual fund units, he should not have to pay for the selling expenses of a fund company. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has taken the first step to ensure this. It has placed a notice on its website...