Financials are strange businesses. On a sale, money goes out from the pocket rather than coming in.

Growth comes first. NPA comes later.

Aavas Financiers says: “What Kills Others Makes Me Strong”

Buckle yourself up as we’ll take you through the 19-20 AR

Indian Energy Exchange, like a toll bridge, connects power generators with power consumers & distributors. The alternative to IEX like alternatives to toll bridges is more expensive bilateral agreements.

Fasten your seatbelts as we’ll take you through the 19-20 AR of IEX.

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Megatrends for Energy

~Decarbonization
~Decentralization
~Digitization
~Democratization

2/
Transformation in the energy sector
~Benchmark prices for all electricity transactions
~Transparent mechanism for price discovery
~High liquidity on exchange to ensure the lowest cost and assured supply

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Key points
~Customer Centricity driven by intuitive, secure, & responsive design
~Efficiency through efficient matching algorithms, automation, & low latency
~State-of-the-Art analytics-based solutions that are future-ready.

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IGX
~ Launched on 15th June 2020
~ India’s 1st nation-wide automated gas trading platform
~ Govt plans to increase the share of natural gas from 6% to 15% by 2022
~Enabler in making India transition towards a gas-based economy.

AR20-21 Notes

Tata Elxsi

Design Digital

Helping Enterprises Re-imagine Products & Services

Simplifying Technological Complexity

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Message From the Chairman

~Strong Operating Performance
~Diversify-Geopolitical & Currency Risk mitigated
~Ranked in the leadership zone of Zinnov Zones 2020 Report

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DESIGN DIGITAL

~Industrial Design & Visualization
~Healthcare
~Media Broadcast & Communications
~Transportation
~System Integration

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Notes from MDA

~IT Sector- 8% of GDP, 52% of Services Exported
~Capex budgets diverted to IT & digitalization
~Disturbance in Automotive Industries
~Global Auto demand is going to increase but at a slow pace

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Notes from MDA

~Media & Communication -1 of the few sectors that did well in pandemic
~5G adoption faster due to pandemic
~Inflection point for digital transformation in healthcare

Some lovely quotes from the book, “Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands” by Rory Sutherland.

If you read them, you will not be able to stop yourself from buying the book and read it.

A thread!

Here you go

1. The economy is not a machine – it is a highly complex system. Machines don’t allow for magic, but complex systems do. Engineering doesn’t allow for magic. Psychology does.

2. When you demand logic, you pay a hidden price: you destroy magic.

3. The human mind does not run on logic any more than a horse runs on petrol.

4. Human behaviour is an enigma. Learn to crack the code.

5. To avoid stupid mistakes, learn to be slightly silly.

6. More data leads to better decisions. Except when it doesn’t.

7. Being slightly bonkers can be a good negotiating strategy: being rational means you are predictable, and being predictable makes you weak.

8. We could never have evolved to be rational – it makes you weak.

9. If you are wholly predictable, people learn to hack you.

10. The record of science in some ways casts doubt on a scientific approach to problem-solving.

11. Be careful before calling something nonsense.

12. The opposite of a good idea can also be a good idea.

Q4FY21 Concall Notes

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56 Companies

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Businesses Covered:

~AAVAS FINANCIERS
~AMBER ENTERPRISES
~ANGEL BROKING
~APCOTEX
~AU SMALL FINANCE BANK
~BAJAJ AUTO
~BAJAJ FINANCE
~BANDHAN BANK
~BALKRISHNA INDUSTRIES
~BLUE STAR
~BSE LTD
~CCL PRODUCTS
~CREDIT ACCESS GRAMEEN
~CRISIL
~CUPID LTD
~DIVI’S LABS
~DIXON TECHNOLOGIES

~EICHER MOTORS
~GALAXY SURFACTANTS
~HDFC AMC
~HDFC BANK
~HDFC LIFE
~HEIDELBERG CEMENT INDIA
~HESTER BIOSCIENCES
~ICICI PRUDENTIAL LIFE
~INDIAN ENERGY EXCHANGE
~INTELLECT DESIGN ARENA
~IRCTC LTD
~ITC LTD
~JYOTHY LABS
~KNR CONSTRUCTIONS
~KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK
~KRBL LTD
~L&T INFOTECH

~MANAPPURAM
~MARICO
~MAYUR UNIQUOTERS
~MHRIL
~NIPPON LIFE AM
~PERSISTENT SYSTEMS
~PI INDUSTRIES
~PIRAMAL ENTERPRISES
~RAMCO SYSTEMS
~STERLITE TECHNOLOGIES
~STOVE KRAFT
~SUDARSHAN CHEMICALS
~SYNGENE
~TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS
~TATA ELXSI
~THOMAS COOK

~UJJIVAN SMALL FINANCE BANK
~ULTRATECH CEMENT
~VAIBHAV GLOBAL
~VARUN BEVERAGES
~VIP INDUSTRIES
~WONDERLA HOLIDAYS

THREAD: 15 of the most useful razors and rules I've found.

Rules of thumb that simplify decisions.

Bezos' Razors:

• If unsure what action to take, let your 80-year-old self make it.

• If unsure who to work with, pick the person that has the best chances of breaking you out of a 3rd world prison.

Skinner's Law:

• If procrastinating on an item, you only have 2 options:

1. Make the pain of not doing it greater than the pain of doing it.

2. Make the pleasure of doing it greater than the pleasure of not doing it.

Luck Razor:

• If stuck with 2 equal options, pick the one that feels like it will produce the most luck later down the line.

I used this razor to go for drinks with a stranger rather than watch Netflix.

In hindsight, it was the highest ROI decision I've ever made.

Bragging Razor:

• If someone brags about their success or happiness, assume it’s half what they claim.

• If someone downplays their success or happiness, assume it’s double what they claim.

The map is not the terrain.

1/ Vanna’s a widow maker... waging war with her & Gary is exhausting... we were able to take a textbook short at 3803 and take a profit On half at 3771. We will look to add more in a similar way on tomorrow morning’s likely vanna rally again... looking for exuberance once again

2/ in that 9-10am CST window. The growing chorus of bulls emboldened by Vanna’s continued support the last few days gives me confidence that this opportunity will be there again. W/Gary & Vanna behind them the retail exuberance is rising to a fever pitch. This is exactly what we

3/ want to see. But what happens when their backup is gone?? Who’s going to buy this market at these increasingly higher levels this week. Better yet who’s going to buy it @ lower levels when they are forced to sell next week? Not Vanna. She’ll be @ the beach. It ain’t cool bein’

4/ no Jive Turkey so close to Thanksgiving (OpEx)... Bear Steepening of the yield curve took a breather yesterday & so did the stair steps, which was a bit discouraging, no 2 ways about it. But those pressures are far from over. But... remember w/ Vanna still at 1/2 force SPX was

5/ still just unchanged. W/out EOD vanna flows where would the market have been yesterday? The NDX generals continue to be violently shot 1 by 1 as the rotation continues. The last generals will be BTC & TSLA. Watch them closely... listen closely into the rally. The fear of Covid

Time for #PapersThatMakeYouGoHmmm! A weekly summary of new ML papers from arXiv that make me think one or more of:

1. That looks useful!
2. That's an interesting approach!
3. A business could be built around this!
4. How did they do that?!

Integrating prediction in mean-variance portfolio

Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance: A cognitive

The Gender Pay Gap Revisited with Big Data: Do Methodological Choices

Sustainable and Resilient Systems for Intergenerational

Compliance is fundamentally at odds with innovation and continuous improvement

Compliance tends to constrain operations to narrow sets of approved sequences of tasks as the means to assure the secure attainment of certain business outcomes. But at what cost ?

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Operational practices have an emergent nature to them. They’re affected by people, their expertise, their relationships, their team goals, role perceptions and also member needs as humans and professionals.
In this entangled mess of variables, aspects practice-as-done are

Constantly morphed as a response to economic pressures (deadlines, business demands), workload demands (as people tend to automate or agree patterns to reduce cognitive load of tasks and become more efficient) and understanding of safety and security related barriers.

All of these tend to be fluid and non fixed. In this continuous interaction with the environment and different pressures acting on it, there are numerous opportunities for improvements which have local relevance and emerge out of local needs and interactions of elements. However

In order to do so, and to support innovation and continuous improvement the practices need to have a requisite level of variability so practitioners exercise their Fingerspitzengefühl (fingertip feel) for what works and what doesn’t, within their constraints and pressures