R Balakrishnan

R Balakrishnan is an independent consultant and has been in business and finance for over three decades. He was one of the founding team members of CRISIL and also helped set up Malaysia's first credit rating agency. He was head of equity research at DSP Financial Consultants and CEO & CIO of a couple of mutual...

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The year was 1993; I was working at CRISIL Ratings Ltd. That year, we saw quite a few interesting...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
We invest in stocks to gain returns better than on fixed-income products and protect against...
R Balakrishnan    
Online Moneylife Magazine
Every day, we are bombarded advice on how to invest our money. From an old school type of bank...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
I recently read a comment that says, venture capital (VC)-funded, new-age companies have a...
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Moneylife News
Saraswat Cooperative Bank Ltd is a scheduled bank. It is a ‘cooperative society’. It has...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
There is outrage over IPO (initial public offering -- of companies seeking to list their shares)...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
Almost every day, I get a message or a teaser inviting me to put money in a ‘sure-shot’...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
Once COVID-19 stepped in and life as we knew it came to a halt, millions of new investors found...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
Investors are the easiest prey. Just tempt them by offering returns that are a few percentage...
R Balakrishnan    
Online Moneylife Magazine
Looking back, 2022 has been a roller coaster ride for us investors. Luckily, on the basis of our...
R Balakrishnan    
Online Moneylife Magazine
The markets continue to be in the grip of the bulls. There seems to be good news and more good...
R Balakrishnan    
Online Moneylife Magazine
I came across two interesting pieces of data on my Twitter timeline. The first is the view of 18...
R Balakrishnan    
Online Moneylife Magazine
I am all for free markets—but free markets that are ‘fair’ to investors. A mutual fund (MF)...
R Balakrishnan    
Online Moneylife Magazine
Last week—10th October -16th October—was “World Investor Week”. Everywhere, regulators...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
One of my favourite comedians, Eddie Izzard, has a rebuttal that I find most compelling. He...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
One big-name ‘unicorn’, Byju’s, is in the news because the ‘top-line’, as explained by them, and...
R Balakrishnan    
Online Moneylife Magazine
In a ‘Spaces’ event on Twitter a few days ago, there was a debate about the Fed (the central...
R Balakrishnan    
Online Moneylife Magazine
For years, the stocks of hotel industry have disappointed. In the 1990s, Indian Hotels was a...
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Online Moneylife Magazine
The end game of most investment plans is either to leave behind an inheritance or to meet...
R Balakrishnan    
Online Moneylife Magazine
It is always wonderful to hear stories of star investors who made it big with a killing in one...
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