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Aakash Agarwal, Capitalmind's research team.

On Slack: $50 Billion Bleed, Amazon’s $541 million loss, GST Taketh Away, Index Funds, Multiple Timeframes, Stakes in 60 Start-ups, Tsunami Amid Tranquil Seas, Ugly for Your 401(k) and much more….

2 Nov 2016Aakash Agarwal4 min read

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What category is this article in?: General
Who wrote this article?: Aakash Agarwal, Capitalmind's research team.
When was this article published?: Published 2 November 2016.
How long does this article take to read?: 4 min read
What topics does this article cover?: Index Funds, Slack Discussions
What does the "The Slack Discussions" section say?: The Slack group at Capital Mind Premium has been extremely active and if you haven’t been there (Premium subscribers only), pop us a note or login here using your premium credentials.
What does the "#general: If Indian Startups Crash, This Bengaluru Woman Will Pay Big Price" section say?: Vani Kola, co-founder of Kalaari Capital, has raised about $650 million and holds stakes in more than 60 startups, including Flipkart and Snapdeal. (Link)
What does the "#general: Asset Managers Bleed $50 Billion as Industry Crisis Deepens" section say?: Seven top asset managers this week reported a total of $50 billion in third-quarter net redemptions, most of it from active funds, company filings show. The biggest losers: Franklin Resources Inc. with $22.1 billion, Alliance Bernstein with $15.3 billion and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. at $4.9 billion. (Link)
What does the "#general: Battle with Flipkart, Snapdeal behind Amazon's $541 million loss" section say?: Amazon Inc reported significant losses in its international business for the quarter ended September due largely to an expensive bid to wrest leadership in the Indian online retail market. The Seattle-based company said losses in the international business unit were $541 million in the third quarter, as compared with $208-million loss during the same period last year. (Link)
What does the "#general: Amazon to buy publishing business of Tata-owned Westland" section say?: Amazon has bought out Tata Group’s publishing business Westland — the publisher of best-selling authors Amish Tripathi, Ashwin Sanghi and Rashmi Bansal, among others — for Rs 39.8 crore. (Link)
What does the "#macronomics: The Next 10 Years Will Be Ugly for Your 401(k)" section say?: It doesn’t seem like much to ask for—a 5 percent return. But the odds of making even that on traditional investments in the next 10 years are slim, according to a new report from investment advisory firm Research Affiliates. (Link)
What does the "#general: 20 years ago, Bill Ackman asked Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger about a risk the market faces today" section say?: “We’ve heard a lot of discussion about how institutions and individuals use index funds,” Ackman, then 30, said to Munger at The Buffett Essays Symposium, a conference that took place in October 1996. “But to the extent that more and more capital becomes indexed — and if you think about index fund managers as really being a computer, then in terms of the voting of shares for instance — the more stock that is held by people who don’t care about individual corporations, the more there is a significant societal detriment to have capital in the hands of people who are just seeking average performance.” (Link)
What does the "#general: Too squid to fail" section say?: Goldman Sachs is a company people love to hate—but in one respect it is a model for its industry. (Link)
What does the "#general: Who Is Jean Paul Roy? The Man Who Holds A Considerable Stake In The KG Basin?" section say?: (Link)
What does the "#general: Why Heirs Can't Breathe in India" section say?: India’s Tata group of companies, which sells everything from salt to software, is known for being, well, old-fashioned. Genteel, even. It tries very hard to avoid any sort of controversy. That's why the sudden removal of the group’s young chairman, Cyrus Mistry, and his replacement by his predecessor, Ratan Tata, is particularly startling. Apparently, not even Tata Sons Ltd., the oldest of Indian old-money concerns, is immune from a very Indian problem: mismanaging succession. (Link)
What does the "#macronomics: What The RBI Giveth, GST Taketh Away" section say?: The government has been clamouring for a cut in interest rates for some time now. As inflation has eased, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made good on at least part of that demand. (Link)
What does the "#general: Looking for cues from Muhurat session? Don't" section say?: The Sensex made a valiant effort to move above the 28,000 mark before slipping to close 11 points lower in the Muhurat session of 2016. If the thought that the Sensex has closed in the red is spooking you, don’t worry. A look at the data since the turn of this century shows that there aren’t any cues to take away from this session. (Link)
What does the "#general: Real estate gave you lower returns than mutual funds or equity since early 1900s: Dhirendra Kumar" section say?: (Link)
What does the "#general: Living In Multiple Timeframes" section say?: (Link)
What does the "#general: FPIs pull out Rs 10,000 cr from capital markets in Oct" section say?: Foreign investors have pulled out more than Rs 10,000 crore from the Indian capital market this month, after pumping in Rs 20,232 crore in September. (Link)
What does the "#macronomics: Venezuelans Give Up on Counting Piles of Cash and Start Weighing Them" section say?: At a delicatessen counter in eastern Caracas, Humberto Gonzalez removes slices of salty white cheese from his scale and replaces them with a stack of bolivar notes handed over by his customer. The currency is so devalued and each purchase requires so many bills that instead of counting, he weighs them. (Link)
What does the "#general: Equity Traders Are preparing for a Tsunami Amid Tranquil Seas" section say?: Markets have been unusually calm in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, with realized one-month volatility for the S&P 500 index tumbling throughout October. (Link)
What does the "#general: Delhi-Noida Flyover Order: Of Judicial Overreach, Unlawful Delegation & Regulatory Capture" section say?: The Allahabad High Court’s judgment holds the collection of tolls on the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) flyover illegal with effect from the date of the judgment for three reasons. (Link)

The Slack Discussions

The Slack group at Capital Mind Premium has been extremely active and if you haven’t been there (Premium subscribers only), pop us a note or login here using your premium credentials.

A brief summary of some of the interesting things discussed there in the last few days:

#general: If Indian Startups Crash, This Bengaluru Woman Will Pay Big Price

Vani Kola, co-founder of Kalaari Capital, has raised about $650 million and holds stakes in more than 60 startups, including Flipkart and Snapdeal. (Link)

#general: Asset Managers Bleed $50 Billion as Industry Crisis Deepens

Seven top asset managers this week reported a total of $50 billion in third-quarter net redemptions, most of it from active funds, company filings show. The biggest losers: Franklin Resources Inc. with $22.1 billion, Alliance Bernstein with $15.3 billion and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. at $4.9 billion. (Link)

#general: Battle with Flipkart, Snapdeal behind Amazon’s $541 million loss

Amazon Inc reported significant losses in its international business for the quarter ended September due largely to an expensive bid to wrest leadership in the Indian online retail market. The Seattle-based company said losses in the international business unit were $541 million in the third quarter, as compared with $208-million loss during the same period last year. (Link)

#general: Amazon to buy publishing business of Tata-owned Westland

Amazon has bought out Tata Group’s publishing business Westland — the publisher of best-selling authors Amish Tripathi, Ashwin Sanghi and Rashmi Bansal, among others — for Rs 39.8 crore. (Link)

#macronomics: The Next 10 Years Will Be Ugly for Your 401(k)

It doesn’t seem like much to ask for—a 5 percent return. But the odds of making even that on traditional investments in the next 10 years are slim, according to a new report from investment advisory firm Research Affiliates. (Link)

#general: 20 years ago, Bill Ackman asked Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger about a risk the market faces today

“We’ve heard a lot of discussion about how institutions and individuals use index funds,” Ackman, then 30, said to Munger at The Buffett Essays Symposium, a conference that took place in October 1996. “But to the extent that more and more capital becomes indexed — and if you think about index fund managers as really being a computer, then in terms of the voting of shares for instance — the more stock that is held by people who don’t care about individual corporations, the more there is a significant societal detriment to have capital in the hands of people who are just seeking average performance.”** (Link)**

#general: Too squid to fail

Goldman Sachs is a company people love to hate—but in one respect it is a model for its industry. (Link)

#general: Who Is Jean Paul Roy? The Man Who Holds A Considerable Stake In The KG Basin?

(Link)

#general: Why Heirs Can’t Breathe in India

India’s Tata group of companies, which sells everything from salt to software, is known for being, well, old-fashioned. Genteel, even. It tries very hard to avoid any sort of controversy. That’s why the sudden removal of the group’s young chairman, Cyrus Mistry, and his replacement by his predecessor, Ratan Tata, is particularly startling. Apparently, not even Tata Sons Ltd., the oldest of Indian old-money concerns, is immune from a very Indian problem: mismanaging succession.** (Link)**

#macronomics: What The RBI Giveth, GST Taketh Away

The government has been clamouring for a cut in interest rates for some time now. As inflation has eased, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made good on at least part of that demand.** (Link)**

#general: Looking for cues from Muhurat session? Don’t

The Sensex made a valiant effort to move above the 28,000 mark before slipping to close 11 points lower in the Muhurat session of 2016. If the thought that the Sensex has closed in the red is spooking you, don’t worry.

A look at the data since the turn of this century shows that there aren’t any cues to take away from this session.** (Link)**

#general: Real estate gave you lower returns than mutual funds or equity since early 1900s: Dhirendra Kumar

(Link)

#general: Living In Multiple Timeframes

(Link)

#general: FPIs pull out Rs 10,000 cr from capital markets in Oct

Foreign investors have pulled out more than Rs 10,000 crore from the Indian capital market this month, after pumping in Rs 20,232 crore in September.** (Link)**

#macronomics: Venezuelans Give Up on Counting Piles of Cash and Start Weighing Them

At a delicatessen counter in eastern Caracas, Humberto Gonzalez removes slices of salty white cheese from his scale and replaces them with a stack of bolivar notes handed over by his customer. The currency is so devalued and each purchase requires so many bills that instead of counting, he weighs them.** (Link)**

#general: Equity Traders Are preparing for a Tsunami Amid Tranquil Seas

Markets have been unusually calm in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, with realized one-month volatility for the S&P 500 index tumbling throughout October. (Link)

#general: Delhi-Noida Flyover Order: Of Judicial Overreach, Unlawful Delegation & Regulatory Capture

The Allahabad High Court’s judgment holds the collection of tolls on the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) flyover illegal with effect from the date of the judgment for three reasons.** (Link)**

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