Introducing ML broad market indices for the MoneyLIFE sample of companies

The market is yet to find a definite direction after the massive mid-May correction. Our proprietary broad market indices for various sizes debut this issue onwards offering an insight into price changes across the ML sample of companies. Regular readers know that we classify our universe of stocks into five categories,...

They advise you not to time the market. But asset allocation funds do exactly the same thing under a pseudo-scientific label

The market has been overvalued and volatile for months before the carnage of May and June. Should that worry equity funds since they ask you to invest for the long term? After all, they want you to believe in the India story and advise you to stay the course over the...

We may not have his scale, but we can emulate Buffett’s focus, says Shreedhar Kanetkar

Both of you,” Warren Buffett wrote to Bill and Melinda Gates on 26 June 2006, “have applied truly unusual intelligence, energy and heart to improving the lives of millions of fellow humans who have not been as lucky as the three of us.” Buffett and Gates are old friends, but this encomium owes its origins...