Keynes’s value investing covered not just stocks but art as well. In World War II, the German Spring Offensive generated enormous panic in the French capital. Thousands of Parisians streamed west from the city, but battling against this current of people was Maynard Keynes. He had heard from his friend, the painter Duncan Grant, that the private collection of Edgar Degas was to be auctioned in...

Return on net worth or return on equity (RoE) tells us how much profit a company generates from the equity its shareholders invested. It is a ratio of post-tax net income and equity shareholding. For instance, an RoE of 20% indicates that a company has generated a return of 20% for each rupee invested by equity investors. As an equity shareholder, one should give more importance to RoE than to...

Future Generali India Life Insurance has launched a children’s life insurance policy – Future Child Benefit Plan. The plan focuses on providing financial security to a child. It offers two options to receive money-back payouts at regular intervals – Benefit Plan Option @ 21 and Future Child Benefit Plan Option @ 23 to meet the education expenses at different stages of a child’s life. It even...