Market Quote of the Day by Sir John Templeton | “The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy”

John Templeton once advised that the best investment opportunities often occur when pessimism is at its peak. This remains relevant for disciplined investors today. When fear is widespread, valuations tend to compress. Strong companies with resilient business models, healthy balance sheets and long-term growth prospects may be sold alongside weaker peers, not because their fundamentals […]

How PPFAS combines active and passive in its new Large Cap Fund

PPFAS Mutual Fund’s Parag Parikh Large Cap Fund aims to occupy a strategic middle ground between active and passive investing, providing broad exposure to the top 100 Indian companies with disciplined ‘smart execution’ and cost efficiency. Benchmarking the Nifty 100 TRI, the fund prioritizes index-focused positioning while maintaining limited opportunistic stock actions. The NFO closes […]

Value seen in banking, IT and FMCG, be wary of defence: Rajat Sharma

Rajat Sharma, Founder and CEO of Sana Securities, shared a value-driven, selective investment outlook across banking, IT, defense and FMCG sectors, emphasizing long-term valuations and fundamentals over short-term momentum.On the banking and financial sector, Sharma said in an interview with ETNow that he believes the recent pullback in major private banks like HDFC Bank and […]

Siddhartha Bhaiya’s global playbook: Top sectors in the US, China and Europe

Fund manager Siddhartha Bhaiya, who recently passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest, had turned cautious on Indian equities in his latest views while spotting selective opportunities in global markets. He remained bullish on non-tech themes in the US, consumption-led developments in China and defensive sectors in Europe, which he said offered better risk-adjusted opportunities.“As […]

If Siddhartha Bhaiya had not been a fund manager, he would have been a ‘bean counter’. Ace Investor’s motto: key lessons

Maverick fund manager Siddhartha Bhaiya, who passed away on Wednesday, December 31 due to cardiac arrest, once said he would have been a ‘bean counter’ had he not become an investor, a revelation he made in an interview with PMSBazaar. Widely known for his knack for identifying small-cap multibaggers, the 47-year-old was inspired by Warren […]

What John Templeton got right and what modern investors are still missing, explains Saurabh Mukherjea

At a time when investors are encouraged to double down on what they know best – one market, one asset class – Saurabh Mukherjea argues for the opposite. In his recent article, the founder of Marcellus Investment Managers turned to Sir John Templeton, the legendary 20th century investor, to argue that global diversification, contrarian thinking […]