Having data scientist is a common thing for all data centric businesses. You will be killed if you dont have it. I won't just run behind HDFC Life because for this fact. On the contrary, their tech sucks ! Ask their sales teams. They don't even hv a decent proposal capture app.
To know about tech, learn from any of the ICICI group companies. Miles ahead. Compared to ICICI Pru, HDFC Life is in stone age. Marcellus may say channel checks, but I am a part of the channel and their customer too. If Tech is the reason, then they got it wrong.
When it comes to investing in Life insurance companies, I don't always see the point. Their major part of the product is sulking investment portfolios of traditional and ULIPs. No sane investor would invest in them. Their agents won't love to sell Term Covers, which is the core
When the major part of a product of any business is not great, why would it be a great business. I do appreciate that insurance has a great scope in India. But then, do any of these insurance companies love selling insurance ? None of their sales teams love that.
If so is the case, isn't this barking the wrong tree ? At times, I find it close to ethics. If sebi was their regulator and it did to them what they did to Mutual funds, the insurance industry will be dead. But that won't happen as IRDAI won't do what sebi does.
But as they say, doesn't matter a out the product. If it sells, then it is a great product and a great business.
I personally find non-term insurance products as harmful as a Cigarette to personal finance. And hence why should Life Insurance be any different to #ITC on ESG ;)
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Big spread between India vs US 10 year rate curve. US is
0.25% vs India at 6.117%
Longer term rates have yet to come down meaningfully. Shorter duration rates have come down materially. Orange line is for Aug 2020 vs the blue line of Jan 2020.
A dividend policy of a Company is a vital piece of info which should be considered for an investment decision. Generally a Co in high growth path would like to retain max earnings into the business to fund it's expansion plans. This sounds reasonable provided growth can be seen
If a Co doesn't have much of an expansion requirement or churns free cashflow in excess of its expansion, it should distribute the surplus to the shareholders. This is again okay, provided, one is not investing in a Co which has sub par growth and no future capex
A Co may retain its earning to bail it out of debts or excessive working capital needs. A not so happy situation to be in. This could at times be confused with high growth requirements & needs to be studied by lifting the lid of the can. Nothing much can be done here and
Tale of two PMS managers. First is one of the largest in India and avoids punter giri. Good stocks and strong track records. It didn't buy Reliance earlier citing Aggressive Accounting. Bought it in May post International stake sales. Perhaps, will help to align to benchmarks.
Another one is a recent entrant and its founder enjoys immense respect. Sticks to quality. By its Investment process, I believe that it won't buy Reliance till the business is a compounder and it gets free cashflow. Cites it's recent underperformance to not holding Reliance.
Hard to say if the recent entrant will succumb to the pressure of buying Reliance (like the first PMS). Fund manager job is hard. If they stick to their process, the investors would strangle them for recent underperformance. If they go to beat the benchmark, inv will challenge..
wonderful conversation with a person who had surprisingly not seen any financial news related to markets since Jan 2020. He was too busy with his work. He looked into his portfolio and couldnt believe the yo-yo it went through.
Q. If he knew, what would have been his action ?
A few more conversations which are worth pondering on. No reactions needed. 2. An individual despite of many requests and reasonings, redeemed all his funds and stopped sips in March end. You can guess what he would be going through now ?
3. An individual heard the rationale and on 23 March (sheer luck and no skill involved), topped his Investments by a whopping 20+L in a day. You can guess what he would feeling today !
When US / China's GDP increased from $2.5 to $5 trillion, their stock market growth rates were between 17% - 28% annually during this journey (from @MotilalOswalAMC).
For India, it could be a similar story. Our Compounding story is about to be on hyperdrive. Sounds fundamental.
The scale of corrections in MidCap & Small Caps is hugeeee. Midcaps still 30% lower compared to 2018 start and Small caps, still 50% lower.
When they bounce back, its to ones guess how much they will catchup to.
Magic of Compounding and right asset class. The longer you are invested in an investment, the more you get. E.g. even at 10% growth, in 5 yrs, your money becomes 1.6 times, but in 20 years, it becomes 6.7 Times and in 30 yrs, it becomes 17 times. @MotilalOswalAMC
Some really interesting data points from #pidilite Investor presentation.
People mostly know their brands - Fevicol, Fevikwik. But many more > See the picture below :
Their core brand which is behind the success is Fevicol. The Company is adding variants and premiumization to this Core product. See the different variants of the same product to address all forms of adhesive requirements. Latest entrant is a Spray.
Expanding into other Emerging Markets which have "India Like" approach.