In a bull market, a lot of people get enticed to use leverage to enhance their portfolio returns. Leverage comes in many forms, loans usin...

We have been witnessing a very strong market sentiment that started with the run up to the general elections and then continued with the ...

The last few months have been fairly uneventful in the equity markets. During the last 3 months (Feb 14th - May 14th), Sensex has been more...

There are many things which you can do to evolve as better investors. Multidisciplinary learning, reading annual reports, deep knowledge i...

I was talking to a friend. Like me he invests typically in midcap and smallcap stocks. The interesting fact he mentioned was that invests o...

Most of us do not think of how or why our investments can fail. While buying, we either look at the fundamentals or consider technical char...

This is that time of the year when most salaried employees start thinking about tax saving and inevitably one of the first things that peop...

It is so interesting to see investors oscillating between optimism and pessimism within a span of a few months. A few months ago, everything...

I have been a great admirer of Seth Klarman since the time I read his book "Margin of Safety". recently, I came across a transcrip...

The legendary investor George Soroshas some radical views on the Euro and Euro zone. Angela Merkel then declared that the guarantee shou...

This post is from Prabhakar Kudva ( http://investment-in-sight.blogspot.com ).  Capital allocation is probably one of the most important ...

The first question that I had was on the number of stocks I should be holding in my portfolio. Typically, investors are mostly over-diversif...

When I first seriously thought about building an investment portfolio, I had a lot of questions that came to my mind. What I wanted was to b...

There are fierce debates on the efficacy of both technical and fundamental analysis. "Fundamentalists" snigger at "chartists...

Its that time of the year when you sit back and take stock. Of the year gone by and plan ahead for the one that is to come. 2010 was in a wa...

Recently, Mr. Market seems to be in a bad mood. He is coming and offering ridiculous prices for some good mid cap and small cap companies. T...