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Triggered Disclosures: A Way out of the Disclosure Dilemma!
Over the last few decades, disclosures have become bulkier, while becoming less informative. In this session, I look at reasons for this development,…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
A "Fairly Highly Valued" (Stock) Market: The Fed Chair Opines but should anyone listen?
Last week, Jerome Powell called US equities "fairly highly valued", squishy words but words that were viewed as a warning about overpriced US equitie…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Indian Smartphone Revolution: Paytm's "Coming of Age" IPO
In the last decade, smart phone access and usage have exploded in India and no company has been better positioned to take advantage than Paytm, found…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Session 33: Market Timing Approaches - Valuing the Market
In this session, we look at extending valuation approaches developed for valuing individual stocks to valuing the entire market. We begin by using an…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
A Golden Year: Gold's Price Surge in 2025 - Macro Signal or Pricing Noise?
In 2025, as stock and bond markets climbed walls of worry nonchalantly to set new highs, gold has had a banner year, climbing 57% in the first ten mo…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
An ESG Follow up: The Gravy Train (or circle) rolls on!
Last year, I argued (in a post and webcast) that ESG was the most over hyped, over sold concept in business, and in the year since, I have heard fro…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Session 30: Market Timing - Setting the Table
In this session, we begin by arguing that all investors are market timers, insofar as they decide how much to invest and when to invest, with the dif…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Velvet Glove, Meet Iron Fist: The China Tech Crackdown
In valuation and investing, we generally do not explicitly consider the effects of the Government, when valuing and pricing companies. That practice,…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Trillion dollar Market Caps: Fairy Tale Pricing or Great Businesses?
A few weeks ago, Nvidia hit a $5 trillion market cap threshold, and while it has retreated since, we have seen a wave of companies breaching the tril…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Statistics 101: A Class Preview
I am not a statistician, and don't aspire to be one, but I work in corporate finance, investing and valuation, and statistics is not only a necessary…
5 months, 4 weeks ago