Will India be the breakout emerging market this decade?
“India is known as the market that has confounded optimists and pessimists alike” is the first sentence of this article. It best captures global investors’ view of the Indian economy and markets alike. Fund managers at Capital Group, one of the most admired active investment management companies in the world, have attempted to answer if the […]
China’s data ‘black box’ puzzles economists
As China’s economy slows down, its macroeconomic data is increasingly hard to make sense. As the FT explains, “The country’s gross domestic product had grown 0.8 per cent in quarterly terms and 6.3 per cent year on year in the second quarter. The combined quarter-on-quarter growth over the previous four quarters, however, implied growth of 6.8 […]
What is it like to be intelligent?
Here’s another perspective on the emerging thinking about Artificial Intelligence (AI). As discourse on the risks of AI models becoming sentient and potentially posing a threat to humanity gains ground, this piece from a couple of years ago takes a shot at understanding what we mean by intelligence and its inherent link to consciousness, the […]
Bihari Rajinikanth to Pushpa’s Flower Nahi Fire—Mumbai ‘dubbers’ drive new pan-India cinema
The spread of prosperity to the small towns of northern India has created a flourishing industry, primarily in Mumbai, of artists & entrepreneurs who take south Indian movies, dub them into Hindi and then release them in northern India. So, who is the entrepreneur who spotted this opportunity and built a successful business around it? “In […]
Book review – ‘How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine The Fate of Every Project…”
Bent Flyvbjerg, the Danish project management guru who is a professor at Oxford University, and Dan Gardner, the New York Times journalist, have written a superb book. We started reading it on a Sunday morning hoping to learn how to manage our projects and teams better. By teatime we felt significantly wiser thanks to both, […]
Portfolio Performance and Update on Fundamentals – June 2023
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Rebalancing is Often Misunderstood Yet Necessary
Periodic rebalancing or re-alignment of the MeritorQ portfolio is as necessary as watering a plant periodically to help it grow – do it too often and the plant may rot; on the other hand, never do it and the plant dies. In MeritorQ we identify quality yet relatively undervalued companies (our newsletters Forensic Accounting Using Quant […]
My failings as an investor
Whilst the best learnings are from one’s own experience, it is never a bad idea to learn from reading about mistakes of others. Christine Benz is an authority in personal finance having researched and written about the subject for years. In this piece, she writes about her mistakes. Here’s two of them we find often […]
The Surprising Striver in the World’s Space Business
Last week, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO or India’s NASA equivalent) launched its third lunar exploration mission with a lander and rover, expected to land near the lunar south pole end of next month. Such has been the progress in India’s rocket science over the decades, primarily driven by the government owned and funded […]
Meetings Are Mushrooming. Harsh Measures May Be Required
Most of us are guilty of either hosting or attending meaningless meetings in the office. Evidence is growing that meetings – whether in person or on videocall – are a killer of workplace productivity and morale. Shopify, the Canadian e-tailer, recently highlighted the perils of this phenomenon: “Earlier, the company axed recurring meetings of three or […]
‘This boy was born to be No 1’: the making of Carlos Alcaraz
It shouldn’t have surprised anyone that Carlos Alvaraz won at Wimbledon last Sunday. After all he was the top seed. However, the five-set win over the Novak Djokovic, arguably the front runner for the G.O.A.T (Greatest Of All Time) in tennis, has made the world see him in a totally different light – the beginning […]
Explained: Why news publishers across the world are suing Google – their biggest source of readers
Many affluent, well-educated people spend a lot of time fulminating about which direction politics is moving on. Specifically, are governments becoming more authoritarian? Are minorities being oppressed? Whilst angst of this sort is very noble, it ignores the fact that the key development of the past decade has been the rise of tech which gradually […]
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