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Top 10 Investment Books Every Investor Should Read

Mastering an art requires perseverance and continuous efforts. Stock investing is just another art, which holds true to this phenomenon.

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What is Discounted Cash Flow?

“A bird in hand is worth two in the bush”, thus goes the saying. If you were to extend the same logic to money, a rupee at hand today is worth more than the same rupee tomorrow. That’s the premise behind Time Value of Money.

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Mohnish Pabrai- The Indian Value Investor

"Heads I win, Tails I don't lose much." Intrigued by this beautiful quote which reveals an excellent style to invest?

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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala- The Phoenix of the Stock Market

“Markets are like women - always commanding, mysterious, unpredictable and volatile.” says a man who is truly inspirational, a billionaire and has given a twist to the Indian perception of stock markets.

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Why is long term investment important?

How long can you focus on something? It was a revelation when a study in 2018 stated that an average human has an attention span of just 8 seconds. If it seems to you that these attention spans do not matter, then you're wrong because it has significant implications on your daily activities and decision making.

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What is Benjamin Graham’s Model of Asset Valuation?

Outside of Warren Buffet, no other investor is as well-known as his mentor Benjamin Graham.

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The Enterprise Value for an investor

What is Enterprise Value? Enterprise Value (EV) is simply the total price that you need to pay to acquire 100% of any company. EV is also known as the Total Enterprise Value (EV) or Firm Value (FV).

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What is the Importance of Contingent Liability

To answer this question, first, we have to understand what contingent liability is. A contingent liability is the potential or uncertain loss that may occur at some point as an outcome of a specific event. It is not an absolute obligation; it may or may not happen depending on how the future unfolds itself. It is recorded only if the liability amount can be estimated relatively. According to the practice of disclosure in the conservative approach of accounting, the liability may be disclosed as a footnote in the financial statements of a company or not reported if conditions are not met. Therefore, the contingent liability has no such accounting treatment — for example, potential lawsuits, product warranties, and pending investigation. Contingent liabilities are possible obligations, which may or may not occur in the future and disclosed in the notes to the accounts.

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5 components of Balance Sheet that influences Investment Decisions

How do you go about investing in stocks? Obviously, the first thing to do would be industry analysis - growth prospects, competitive analysis, barriers to entry, etc. But, as we had quoted Warren Buffet in a previous article, “there is a lot more to picking stocks than to work out which is going to be the most wonderful industry in the future.”

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What are Moats and Floats?

A good business model and strong fundamentals are all fine and nice, but what differentiates a company from its competitors? Introducing - "Moat".

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Difference between market value and book value

All of these terms are used for the financial market and signify a particular meaning to the financial instruments. These terms have a different value for every financial instrument and should be taken into consideration. So let us know about every term in detail:

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What is Debt to Equity Ratio?

It is imperative and a task of paramount importance for an investor to examine the financial performance of a company from every angle before investing a single penny in that company. The true worth of the company can be detected by analyzing its financial ratios.

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What is Margin of Safety?

Origin of ‘Margin of Safety’

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Factors Influence Market Trends

There is a massive panic surrounded the markets, where Nifty fell from a record high of 12,003 (on June 3) to 10,990 plunging nearly 9% in the span of 2 months, majorly dragged by auto, banking & financials, energy, infra, and metals stocks. Mid-capsand small caps stocks have gone through a free fall, which is more exhaustive when compared to large caps. So much is the agony in the mid-cap sector that since January 2018, investors have lost more than ₹28 trillion in all the corrected stocks. The BSE MidCap and the BSE Small-capindices lost 21% and 31%, respectively, since January 2018. More than 1,976 stocks traded on BSE have dropped since January - that’s 86% of all traded stocks. Chances are, if you owned 20 stocks, 17 of them would have suffered losses. One of the reasons for Midcap& Small cap downturn:

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What is Inflation and Index fund

With the opening up of the economies and the growth in various sectors, numerous enterprises spread over sectors like FMCG, education, banking, automobile, healthcare etc. have been set up which provide the people with goods and services which are needed and essential for the survival as well as improvement in the standard of living. As these enterprises set up and grow, they require funds to operate which can be in the form of equities or debt from the outside investors for a specified or an unlimited period of time. The sources from where such organizations can raise funds can be: equities, loans, mutual funds, debentures, bonds etc.

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Sector Funds: What are sector Funds?

These are equity mutual funds that give you access to a very small part of the overall market; they majorly invest in a particular type of business, industry or a sector of the economy. It can be any sector such as the Education sector, Automobile sector, Health care sector, IT sector, FMCG sector, etc.

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Investing in turnaround stocks

Every business, whether it is big or small, follows a business cycle consisting of growth, maturity, and decline phases. The company in the growth phase performs well, which makes it stock prices higher, whereas the company in decline phase always have stocks dipping down in price. So, when a company reaches the decline phase, then, there are just two chances- either it will become bankrupt or it will turnaround itself and bounce back. The turnaround shares refer to those companies which are underperforming currently but are expected to rebound. Smart analysis of such stocks that are near the bottom can fetch ample gains to investors if they bounce. Such stocks are usually not preferred by the stock market for some reason or the other.

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Sukanya Samridhi Yojana

Sukanya Samridhi Yojana (SSY) is a government scheme that was introduced by the finance ministry and launched by our honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 22nd January 2015 in Panipat, Haryana. The scheme is targeted at the parents of a girl child and has been launched to promote the welfare of the girl child.

Top 10 Investment Books Every Investor Should Read

What is Discounted Cash Flow?

Mohnish Pabrai- The Indian Value Investor

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala- The Phoenix of the Stock Market

Why is long term investment important?

What is Benjamin Graham’s Model of Asset Valuation?

The Enterprise Value for an investor

What is the Importance of Contingent Liability

5 components of Balance Sheet that influences Investment Decisions

What are Moats and Floats?

Difference between market value and book value

What is Debt to Equity Ratio?

What is Margin of Safety?

Factors Influence Market Trends

What is Inflation and Index fund

Sector Funds: What are sector Funds?

Investing in turnaround stocks

Sukanya Samridhi Yojana

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