Read this story and see if you can find any parallels with investing. Zhuge Liang led an army to Qi Mountain six times. Eventually, he fell sick from exhaustion and passed away at an army base. Before he died, Zhuge Liang told his deputy, Jiang Wei to keep the news of his death a secret. He also wanted his artisans to carve a life-size wooden statue of him, for his soldiers to dress up in his...

A fine new book that synthesises the latest market theories and offers practical solutions

It is rare to come across a new book on markets with fresh ideas. This book does not pretend to be one. But this is one of the best recent books that synthesise the cutting-edge theories of how markets work, and show, how to navigate them. For instance, it is increasingly clear that as an arena where...

Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were allowed to invest in India since 1993. In 2005, Indians were allowed to invest large sums overseas. Global investing may seem new but it is not. Before the Russian revolution, you could hear French investors discuss their Russian bond investments in Paris. Barings, an aristocratic British investment bank, was a big investor in Argentina. Jamshedji...