The financial services industry is a curious beast. It’s been around for thousands of years, with the practice of lending and borrowing money dating back to ancient civilizations such as Greece and Rome. Hence, it’s often easy to assume that…

The Indian financial services sector has undergone a remarkable transformation over the years. It all started in the 1970s with the nationalization era, which saw the government take over most financial institutions. In the 1990s, things took a turn for…

Ask any long-term investor, and they’ll tell you they look for businesses with moats. This term is so overused that if investors received a dollar each time they used it, they would have enough money to challenge even the strongest…

Imagine you’re looking for some new jeans and stumble across a company claiming to sell “sustainable denims.” You’re intrigued. But, as you scroll through their website, you can’t help but wonder if they’re really as eco-friendly as they claim. They…

It was 1873 when Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis figured they should put rivets into men’s work pants, and they ended up inventing the legendary “blue jean”. Little would they have known that it would become the most widely worn…

Short answer: No. If you’re reading this, we’re sure you’ve already heard of ChatGPT and its many wonders. It can write poems. Tell jokes. Answer questions about the meaning of life. It can also write computer programs. This last capability…

Famously known as India’s mountain man, Dashrath Manjhi was a labourer who stayed in a small village in Bihar. There was a mountain in his village that people needed to climb to be able to reach a hospital and get…

Legendary investor Warren Buffett once said, “We’ve long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be…

In a football game, if you were to pick a minute at random, the odds of it being a rather uneventful would be quite high. This is because football games are typically characterized by long stretches of play where not…

Like most cricket fans who think that they know more than they really do, our equity research team over the past two months has been debating over what is best for the Indian cricket team. While we don’t have a…