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Why your health insurance claim may be rejected

Today, many personal finance articles tell you that one of the biggest personal finance take-aways from Covid is that everyone ought to sign up for a generous health insurance cover. But they fail to include the statutory warning that must come with every such plug – “Don’t expect your hospital bills to be settled in full”.
Prompted by real-life experiences of many investors who had filed claims for Covid treatment, PrimeInvestor conducted a Twitter dipstick survey in the last week of May on the claims settlement experience of policyholders.

Aarati Krishnan June 1, 2021 No Comments

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Stock Review: Tata Steel Long Products – A long shot on the steel cycle

The stock of Tata Steel Long Products (TSLP) offers an interesting case study on how a commodity business in an unexciting category can acquire scale,

N V Chandrachoodamani May 25, 2021 10 Comments

Stocks

Stock Review : Tanla Solutions – what explains the quick rise and what’s in store?

In these reviews, we pick stocks that have rallied, or where businesses are interesting or changing, or where companies may be relatively unknown and so

Anush Raj P May 25, 2021 10 Comments

Mutual funds & ETFs

Daily, weekly, or monthly SIPs – which is the best?

Could upping the frequency with which you run your SIPs net you better returns? The primary aspect you look at in SIPs is that it helps invest across different market levels and therefore averages your investment cost down. If that’s the case, it follows that making very frequent investments will help capture more market volatility than just once-in-a-month investing.

Bipin Ramachandran May 23, 2021 No Comments

Short Takes

OLD is GOLD for Music Stocks!

If you’ve been whiling away the hours listening to legends such as Lata Mangeshkar or Kishore Kumar, you’re not alone. And as you returned to

N V Chandrachoodamani May 21, 2021 2 Comments

Taxes

How are REITs taxed?

Many investors are attracted to Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) because they seem to offer best of both the worlds – regular income payouts like bonds and the prospect of capital appreciation like equities. But what about REIT Taxation?

Aarati Krishnan May 20, 2021 No Comments

General

“The Dhandho investor” – A review

We’ve heard of fusion music, we’ve heard of fusion cuisine, so why not a fusion book?

Colour me naive, but when I picked up ‘The Dhandho Investor’ – a book with an Indian author and an Indian name, I thought it would be about Indian markets and for Indian investors. It was not. Although the author is Indian, and there are many ‘Indian’ anecdotes in the book, it is aimed at an American audience.

But that should not stop you from grabbing it and reading it. It’s a delightful book – expertly written with ideas that you can use in any free market economy.

Srikanth Meenakshi May 20, 2021 2 Comments

Markets

Technical outlook: Is there steam left in mid-and-small caps?

The benchmark Nifty 50 index has been drifting lower since February 16, 2021 when it recorded a high of 15,431.8. While there has been some recovery in the past few weeks, the real action has shifted to the broader markets. Lots of stocks from the mid-cap and small-cap sectors have continued to seek higher levels even as the Nifty 50 index has been struggling in a broad range.

B Krishnakumar May 18, 2021 6 Comments

Stocks

How to use Price to book value (P/BV) in banking stocks

Price to Book Value (P/BV) ratio is a measurement of how much an investor pays for a stock over its book value. Book value is

N V Chandrachoodamani May 18, 2021 No Comments

Stocks

Why, how, and when to take cash calls

Many years ago, I asked a fund manager about why did he not exit a lot of his portfolio and keep cash, since it was obvious that stock valuations were rather high. His response was that the investor has given him money to invest in equities, which made up his or her ‘equity’ allocation and therefore he was duty bound to keep it invested fully.

R Balakrishnan May 16, 2021 No Comments

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“The Millionaire Fastlane” – A review

repreneur forum that I follow, someone asked a question to the group – “Which books made you the most money?”. The answers that followed ranged across topics of investing to motivational to actual business books. But one book that got the most mention was this book by M J DeMarco titled, “The Millionaire Fastlane”.

However, people who commented on this recommendation seemed quite polarized. Some of them REALLY liked the book, and other others REALLY hated it.

So, I had to buy and read it. 🙂

I just finished it, and I have to say, I hated it.

But, if you read it, you may like it. And that’s ok. While not quite liking it, I could quite see why some people will really find it inspiring or at least, alluring.

In this review, let me give you a summary of what the author says, and tell you what I thought about the ‘fastlane’ he recommends.

Srikanth Meenakshi May 13, 2021 13 Comments

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Markets

FMCG Results Update – A bumper Q4 is not a sign of what lies ahead

Most of the FMCG majors posted stellar numbers for the March 2021 quarter. But this performance has come by mainly due to favourable base effect.

N V Chandrachoodamani May 12, 2021 2 Comments

PrimeInvestor - Articles and Reports

Why your health insurance claim may be rejected

Stock Review: Tata Steel Long Products – A long shot on the steel cycle

Stock Review : Tanla Solutions – what explains the quick rise and what’s in store?

Daily, weekly, or monthly SIPs – which is the best?

OLD is GOLD for Music Stocks!

How are REITs taxed?

“The Dhandho investor” – A review

Technical outlook: Is there steam left in mid-and-small caps?

How to use Price to book value (P/BV) in banking stocks

Why, how, and when to take cash calls

“The Millionaire Fastlane” – A review

FMCG Results Update – A bumper Q4 is not a sign of what lies ahead

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