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Educational Resources

How to Evaluate AIF Funds for Conservative Long-Term Value Investment Goals

When it comes to conservative long-term value investing, Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) can provide a valuable opportunity to diversify...

Investment Philosophy

How PMS Services Enhance Conservative Long-Term Value Investing for Wealth Preservation

When using PMS services (Portfolio Management Services), investors gain access to expert advice and tailored strategies that align with thei...

Investment Philosophy

Navigating Market Cycles with Conservative Long-Term Value Investing and Portfolio Management Services

Navigating market cycles can be one of the most challenging aspects of investing. The highs and lows, bullish and bearish trends, often leav...

Educational Resources

Introduction of Specialised Investment Funds (SIFs): A New Opportunity for High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNIs)

In February 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) introduced a new category of investment vehicles known as Specialised In...

Educational Resources

Understanding the Three Categories of Alternative Investment Funds: Cat I, II, and III

Regulatory authorities categorize Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) into three distinct categories, which serve different investment objec...

Regulatory Updates

SEBI Extends Deadlines for Alternative Investment Funds to Transition Investments into Dematerialized Form

On 14th February 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) issued an important circular regarding the timelines for holdi...

Investment Philosophy

How is SEBI Pushing For Growth and Transparency in AIFs?

India’s financial landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, fuelled by a confluence of factors. A decade-long surge in wealth has seen...

Regulatory Updates

How is SEBI Pushing For Growth and Transparency in AIFs?

India’s financial landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, fuelled by a confluence of factors. A decade-long surge in wealth has seen...

Regulatory Updates

SEBI brings in changes for simplifying PMS investment

The Indian Portfolio Management Services (PMS) industry has seen a significant uptick in interest from High Net-worth Individuals (HNIs) and...

Regulatory Updates

Navigating New Waters: A Look at SEBI’s Circular on AIF Fund Due Diligence

India’s alternative investment funds (AIF funds), which includes private equity funds, debt funds, real estate funds, and funds of funds, ha...

Economic Policy

The Future of India

The ‘Future of India’ is larger than the headlines. Larger than our government. Larger than the bureaucracy; larger than the titans of indus...

Company Spotlights

Stocks from the South

“South Indians spend a lot of money on weddings. Even though we’re present in only 4 states of the South, we’ve managed a turnover of more t...

Market News & updates

Indian Pharma Industry Sees Double Boost: API Prices Drop and Chronic Drug Sales Surge

Pharmaceuticals is an industry that, along with financial services could be labeled as one being underpenetrated in India. However, that’s c...

Market News & updates

King coal holds strong in India’s energy mix

Despite the increasing focus on renewable energy sources, coal appears likely to remain dominant in most of Asia’s energy sector for some ti...

Market News & updates

‘Premium’ flavour favours consumption demand

The post-COVID-19 pandemic period has seen a notable trend in the Indian consumer market. Wealthier individuals are spending more on luxury ...

Market News & updates

Tata Technologies Scores a Blockbuster Listing

The much-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) of Tata Technologies, a global engineering and product development services company witne...

Educational Resources

Demat Accounts: A Game-Changer in Democratizing Equity Markets

In the ever-evolving landscape of India’s financial markets, Demat (Dematerialized) accounts have emerged as a transformative force, making ...

Market News & updates

Hyperlocal Jewellery Brands Dominate Small-Caps, Focus on Tier-II Cities

In an intriguing revelation within the sectoral indices, the Gems and Jewellery Index showcases a remarkable trend – the domination of hyper...

Market News & updates

The K-shape in The Luxury Car and Two-wheeler Markets

India’s automotive landscape presents a contrasting tale of luxury and utility. Luxury car sales are racing to new heights, while entry-leve...

Economic Policy

India Is Bigger Than Its Government

The Indian economy and the stock market has always been a subject of great fascination, not only for financial enthusiasts but also for poli...

Educational Resources

What Is P/E Ratio And Why it Matters in the Stock Market

The Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio is a fundamental financial metric widely used by investors to assess the relative valuation of a stock. It...

Educational Resources

A Simple Guide to Exchange Traded Funds

In the fast-paced world of finance, navigating investment options can be overwhelming. But if you’re looking for a straightforward and cost-...

Market News & updates

Aeroflex, TVS and Concord Biotech Listings Gain on Debut in August 23

In a display of investor confidence and market enthusiasm, four Indian companies achieved stellar stock market debuts in August 2023. The fi...

Educational Resources

Misunderstanding the Power of Compounding

In the fast-paced world of stock market investing, the concept of compounding often takes centre stage as a critical factor for long-term we...

Company Spotlights

Fortis gears up for Diagnostic Arm Agilus’ IPO

Healthcare conglomerate Fortis is looking to list its Diagnostic Arm Agilus (formerly SRL Diagnostics). The impending IPO is will reportedly...

Market News & updates

Recent Small Cap IPOs Witness Divergent Market Debuts

In the fast-paced world of Indian business, the IPO market has been bustling with activity recently, with several companies making their deb...

Market News & updates

IPOs 2023: Small Caps Thrive Amidst Market Caution

The Indian markets have displayed robust returns so far in 2023, though IPOs have encountered a somewhat cautious reception. While many list...

Economic Policy

Conviction: How We Survived Covid

This quarter marks three years since the Covid pandemic hit India. At the end of March 2020 and beginning of April that year, the levels of ...

Miscellaneous Topics

A Closer Look at Shepherd’s Hill’s Stellar PMS Performance

Last week, financial media outlets such as Business Today, The Economic Times, and Mint spotlighted Shepherd’s Hill...

Market News & updates

Why Do Mutual Funds Favour HDFC Group Companies?

Indian mutual funds play a significant role in the country’s investment landscape, offering retail and institutional investors opportunities...

Economic Policy

How Warren Buffett’s Mentor Demonstrated the Power of Compounding

Benjamin Graham, widely regarded as the father of value investing, asserted that the power of compounding is one of the most crucial concept...

Investment Philosophy

Charlie Munger’s Sage Advice for Investors

In this year’s Berkshire Hathaway letter, Warren Buffett highlights some thoughts about life and investing expressed by his partner, Charlie...

Educational Resources

A Comprehensive Guide to Portfolio Management Services in India

Portfolio Management Service (PMS) is a specialised service offered by professional money managers to manage investment portfolios on behalf...

Educational Resources

A Primer on Alternate Investment Funds in India

Alternate Investment Funds (AIFs) have grown in popularity as a new way to grow wealth due to their potential for higher returns. AIFs are p...

Educational Resources

Small Caps, Overlaps and ChatGPT

While it’s clear that conversational artificial intelligence is the new technological breakthrough everyone is talking about, using it to im...

Market News & updates

Does India’s Asset Management Industry Need More Women?

SEBI lists 405 firms that have Portfolio Management Services licences. PMS investments has touched 26.7 lac crores. These numbers have only ...

Company Spotlights

Will Tata Tech Revive 2023’s Lackluster IPO Market?

The Tata Group has returned to the capital markets, for the first time since 2004, filing a “draft red herring prospectus” (DRHP) for Tata M...

Economic Policy

Dont ‘Play’ the Stock Markets

The use of the word “play” when referring to stocks and stock markets is a misnomer that distracts from what should be a serious endeavour. ...

Educational Resources

CAS: Your Most Important Investment Statement

The Consolidated Account Statement – or CAS – is a single, aggregated statement of all your investments in the securities market. All your i...

Educational Resources

Equity Investing: No Free Lunches

At the beginning of the new year, there is a lot of uncertainty and volatility in the economy and the financial markets. The tightening grip...

Market News & updates

Data Backup at the Stock Exchanges

In a talk at IIM Bangalore a few weeks ago, SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch described a very interesting development with respe...

Educational Resources

Equity Investors Should Set Reasonable Expectations

With markets undoubtedly cracking over the last quarter, it is a good time to look back at the lastthree years and review our frame of refer...

Educational Resources

The Thing About Independent Directors

In theory, an independent director is a guardian of minority shareholder rights. The independent director is supposed to scrutinise question...

Educational Resources

Understanding Uncertainty

An important part of investing is understanding uncertainty – that we do not know what will happen. And yet, at the same time, we must remai...

Economic Policy

The PE of The Boss

According to a recent New York Times article, Bruce Springsteen’s music catalog was sold for $550 million. According to Billboard, after ded...

Market News & updates

Inflation Is Here

We had written in March about inflation creeping into the economy. It is now clearly visible in the data, as well as anecdotally.  The Feder...

Market News & updates

Please See if You Can Avoid PSUs

We have spoken earlier about investing in Public Sector Units (PSUs; government owned and controlled companies), and why they should be avoi...

Educational Resources

The Wrong Reason to Invest in the Stock Market

Many people think that an important benefit of investing in the public equities market is that they can withdraw or liquidate the investment...

Economic Policy

Flip the Price-Earnings Ratio Around

The Price-Earnings – or PE – ratio is used very often by investors and financial analysts to gauge the price level of any given company’s st...

Regulatory Updates

SEBI vs. SAT

(Securities and Exchange Board of India versus Securities Appellate Tribunal) If you follow the Indian securities markets, you may often com...

Economic Policy

Where To Not Invest

Our Fund Manager, Rishi Gupta, was invited to speak by the Pune chapter of the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, August 25...

Market News & updates

Bank Credit Growth Is Down

Total bank credit in India as of July, 2021 was 109 lakh crores. Between bank credit and corporate bonds, it is bank credit that does the he...

Regulatory Updates

Introduction of Accredited Investor

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has introduced the concept of “accredited investor” to the Indian securities markets. Accr...

Investment Philosophy

Is ITC a value buy?

The world is a complicated place for companies. Commercial, social, ethical, environmental and governance issues intersect and intertwine in...

Investment Philosophy

Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)

IPOs are highly marketed events. There is an entire intermediary ecosystem that is built to package and sell an initial public offering. The...

Regulatory Updates

Approach Approaches With Caution

SEBI has recently revised its reporting format for Portfolio Management Services (PMS) to include more detailed information regarding manage...

Investment Philosophy

10 Years of Indian Equities Investing

Shepherd’s Hill has completed 10 years of investing in the Indian equity markets. It is a significant milestone for any investment organisat...

Investment Philosophy

Buffett on Volatility and Risk

Continuing from last week’s discussion about the difference between volatility and risk, here are comments made by Warren Buffett on this to...

Investment Philosophy

Volatility Is Not Risk

For the long-term value investor, volatility is not risk. This is a very important concept in the investment business. Many people, from ana...

Market News & updates

First Mention of Fed Taper

The US Federal Reserve just released the minutes of its April joint meeting with the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee), in whic...

Market News & updates

Where Do Institutions Invest?

A recent report by Kotak Institutional Equities observes that almost 70% of the portfolio of mutual funds and more than 70% of por...

Investment Philosophy

Liquidity – Lower is Better

In our previous post, we talked about portfolio churn and how it can be a good indicator of the quality of an investor’s process and portfol...

Investment Philosophy

Portfolio Churn – Lower is Better

Portfolio churn can be calculated as the value of sells (or buys) in a given year divided by the average value of the portfolio during the y...

Market News & updates

Happy Birthday NIFTY

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) Fifty index, better known as the NIFTY 50, or just the NIFTY, is India’s primary stock market index. It wa...

Economic Policy

An Increase In LIC Claims Due to the Pandemic?

BloombergQuint has an interesting article out recently which cites a rise in Life Insurance Corporation’s (LIC) life insurance policy claims...

Regulatory Updates

Supreme Court Judgment on Bank Loans

The Supreme Court has disallowed the extension of the moratorium period on loans allowed by RBI due to Covid. It has also vacated ...

Market News & updates

The Changing Complexion of Bank Loans

For the past many years, commercial bankers have been saying that due to India’s high levels of non-performing assets (NPAs) in the corporat...

Investment Philosophy

FM Speaks: Where To Not Invest – Part 2

In the second half of this talk, many pitfalls and caution areas are covered for investors in the Indian equity markets. Why should we not i...

Economic Policy

Inflation Seems to Be Creeping In

When fiscal and monetary policy is loose or expansionary, there is always the possibility of inflation creeping into the economy. There are ...

Investment Philosophy

The Case For Small-Caps

It is useful to think of investment opportunities in the publicly listed space in terms of market capitalisation. “Market-cap” is nothing bu...

Economic Policy

Indian Budget: Stability of Tax Rates

A good feature in the recent Fiscal Year 2022 Indian budget presented by the Finance Minister was the minimal change in tax rates for the ye...

Market News & updates

RBI Enables Retail Investors to Invest in Gilts

The RBI, in a recent announcement, has proposed to allow retail investors to directly access its system for placing orders for government se...

Regulatory Updates

SEBI: Portfolio Manager Monthly Report

SEBI has been publishing monthly information reports on Portfolio Managers since 2013. These monthly reports are available to the public at ...

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