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  • Triggered Disclosures: Escaping the Disclosure Dilemma October 19, 2021
    In a post a few weeks ago, I argued that the disclosure process had lost its moorings, as corporate disclosures (annual filings, prospectuses for IPOs) have become more bulky, while also become less informative. I argued that some of this disclosure complexity could be attributed to the law of unintended consequences, with good intentions driving […]
  • The Indian Smartphone Revolution: Paytm's Coming of Age IPO! October 4, 2021
    A few weeks ago, I valued Zomato, the Indian online food delivery company, just prior to its IPO, and argued that the excitement about its potential was tied to the potential for growth in India and the shifting habits of Indian consumers. Since its public offering, Zomato's stock price has reflected that excitement, more than […]
  • The ESG Movement: The "Goodness" Gravy Train Rolls On! September 14, 2021
    Last year, I wrote a post on ESG and explained why I was skeptical about the claims made by advocates about the benefits it would bring to companies, investors and society. In the year since, I have heard from many on the topic, and while there are some who agreed with me on the internal […]
  • China's Tech Crackdown: Its about Control, not Consumers or Competition! September 1, 2021
    For the last two decades, China has been the dominant story for both the global economy and capital markets, as the country's immense growth and infrastructure investments have sustained commodity prices, and altered the balance of world economic power. That growth has come (or should have come) with the recognition that in almost every venture […]
  • A DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Valuation of Zomato August 3, 2021
    Just over a week ago, I valued Zomato ahead of its market debut, and as with almost every valuation that I do on this forum, I heard from many of you. Some of you felt that I was being far too generous in my assumptions about market share and profitability, for a company with no […]
  • The Zomato IPO: A Bet on Big Markets and Platforms! July 22, 2021
    Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021,  and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public. The primary attraction of the company, to investors, comes not from its current […]
  • Disclosure Dilemma: When more (data) leads to less (information)! July 14, 2021
    In the last few decades, as disclosure requirements for publicly traded firms have increased, annual reports and regulatory filings have become heftier. Some of this surge can be attributed to companies becoming more complex and geographically diversified, but much of it can be traced to increased disclosure requirements from accounting rule writers and market regulators. […]
  • The Rise of SPACs: IPO Disruptors or Blank Check Distortions? June 9, 2021
    For decades, the process that companies in the United States have used to go public has followed a familiar script. The company files a prospectus, providing prospective investors with information about its business model and financials, and hires an investment banker or bankers to manage the issuance process. The bankers, in addition to doing a […]
  • Inflation and Investing: False Alarm or Fair Warning? May 24, 2021
    As we approach the mid point of 2021, financial markets, for the most part, have had a good year so far. Looking at US equities, the S&P 500 is up about 11% and the NASDAQ about 5%, from start of the year levels, and the underperformance of the latter has led to a wave of […]

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  • STI up nearly 1% over the week, likely to scale higher October 22, 2021
    DESPITE the extension of the stabilisation phase to keep the Covid outbreak under control, Singapore key stock index Straits Times Index (STI) has been relatively resilient. The barometer may likely scale higher by regional performance, as an analyst has observed.
  • Suntec Reit Q3 DPU rises 20.8% October 22, 2021
    SUNTEC real estate investment trust's (Reit) distribution per unit (DPU) in Q3 rose 20.8 per cent to 2.232 Singapore cents from 1.848 cents a year earlier, its manager said in a business update filed on Friday (Oct 22).
  • STI up nearly 1% over the week October 22, 2021
    DESPITE the extension of the stabilisation phase to keep the Covid outbreak under control, Singapore key stock index Straits Times Index (STI) has been relatively resilient. The barometer may likely scale higher by regional performance, as an analyst has observed.
  • Hot stock: Raffles Education up as much as 19.7% after disclosures October 22, 2021
    SHARES of mainboard-listed Raffles Education NR7 were actively traded in the morning session on Friday (Oct 22) after a 3-day trading halt was lifted on the counter.
  • Singapore stocks rise at Friday's open; STI edges up 0.1% October 22, 2021
    SINGAPORE stocks rose in early trade on Friday (Oct 22), tracking overnight gains in the S&P 500.

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Benjamin Graham on dollar-cost averaging

March 19, 2017

In Chapter 5 (The Defensive Investor and Common Stocks) of The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, touched on various aspects of defensive investment, among which was dollar-cost averaging, an application of a “formula investment”. Elaborating, he said: “The New York Stock Exchange has put considerable effort into popularizing its ‘monthly purchase

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How Berkshire Hathaway selects a new director

March 9, 2017

Berkshire Hathaway’s four long-standing criteria in selecting a new board director: owner-oriented, business-savvy, interested and truly independent. Chairman Warren Buffett said: “I say “truly” because many directors who are now deemed independent by various authorities and observers are far from that, relying heavily as they do on directors’ fees to maintain their standard of living.

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When it comes to stocks, Berkshire Hathaway looks for wonderful companies

March 7, 2017

“Woody Allen once explained that the advantage of being bi-sexual is that it doubles your chance of finding a date on Saturday night,” Warren Buffett said in his FY2015 letter to Berkshire Hathaway. Why did the Berkshire Hathaway chairman say this? “In like manner – well, not exactly like manner – our appetite for either

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