Total US population: 33 crores
Total Indians in US: 0.42 crores
Total unicorns in US: 290
Unicorns by NRI Indians: 67
Indians are 1.3% of US population, but have founded 23% of US unicorns!
Now imagine the potential of home grown unicorns over the next decade. Talent was never a question, digital infrastructure has been formed in last few years and regulations are more supportive.
One big impediment is the low per capital income in India ($1948) versus USA ($65000), which makes it difficult to sell SaaS/ subscription products to Indian users at scale.
A large young population base should support B2C models, which B2B models will start looking globally.
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Inflation is defined as a sustained increase in the price of goods and services. Your investment returns must cover for inflation to avoid loss of purchasing power.
Reading: cnbc.com/2021/05/13/her….
Asset class wise thoughts below:
2/n
1. Equity:
A. Tech platforms: ❌
Inflationary scenario has historically been bad for growth stocks and Tech has had a ferocious rally. Despite recent correction, many names appear overvalued to me. Selectively hold 2 names.
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@KirtanShahCFP Thanks for simplifying and sharing about InvITs Kirtan. Some further context from my side:
1. Background: The government has announced an aggressive spend target of ₹100 lakh crore over next five years to revamp India's infrastructure (roads, power transmission, gas pipelines)
Equity in infrastructure is seen as risk prone and Debt (Project Financing) has been scaled down by Banks over last few years thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/editor…
This is where a structure such as InvIT comes in. Think of it as Mutual Funds, with...
@KirtanShahCFP ..key difference being that these InvITs would hold infrastructure assets instead of financial securities held under MFs.
3. Also the risk-rewards make them a hybrid between Debt and equities - just the right mix in my opinion, if India is to achieve it's aggressive target.
Resemblance to Bread coins in purely co-incidental.
Two DMs asking if I have an issue with CRED. No I don't, but I think this was again a marketing ploy more than anything. Virtue signalling created out of thin air.
Let me explain:
1. Cost of CRED points to users was zero as these were freely given as a carrot to acquire users.