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From Adani to Finfluencers, portfolio bond to the Japanese Yen, what made the headlines this year

Funnycontrol | Crypto carol and more stock market terms explained by Santa Claus

Stay away from speculative investments and go long on Christmas trees if you’re bullish on climate action, and more ways to rake it in. Merry Christmas!

Funnycontrol | Small & Medium Entertainment or SME IPOs: A glossary of terms

SMEs can be classified based on size of turnover and market cap. For your knowledge and because I need something to joke about, here are the classifications and how to use them.

Funnycontrol | Mahurat trading and a Samvat 2080 glossary of terms

Happy Diwali and Muhurat trading tomorrow, from 6.15 pm - 7.15 pm

Funnycontrol | Monopoly Stock: How to make a stock trend in 7 steps

Aka playing Monopoly with real investor’s money.

Between Quarters: The Funnycontrol earnings special

This earnings seasons promises to be special.

Funnycontrol | Investment lessons mothballed in Asia Cup 2023 that we're still thinking about

A sort of prequel to the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, the Asia Cup held investment lessons for the discerning.

Funnycontrol | Asia Cup 2023: 6 investing lessons, as India lifts the trophy

This Asia Cup is like Asian World Cup before the World Cup in October. As India beat 2022 Asia Cup champion Sri Lanka by 10 wickets to lift the trophy, the Asia Cup has taught some important investing lessons.

Funnycontrol | 9 lessons investors can learn from ISRO

What Pragyan rover teaches us about sharing investing screenshots online, reasons to consider Mars soyabean futures in 30 Mars years and more investment lessons from ISRO missions.

Funnycontrol | 7 investing lessons online gurus will cull from Chandrayaan 3 mission

Get ready for random pronouncements like 'the Pragyan rover is like a dividend that comes out of the value stock that is the Vikram Lander.'

Funnycontrol | On Independence Day, 5 ways to make you financially independent from yourself

Join the National Procrastination Scheme and resign from Middle Class, listen to your parents and spend long weekends in office instead of running into colleagues at the beach where you're holidaying.

Funnycontrol | 6 types of investors who should invest in therapy instead of shares

Why rupee cost averaging is like adding losers to a dysfunctional friends group, how loss avoidance is like a CRR you place on yourself, and whose BMI is more likely to rise than their stocks portfolio.

Funnycontrol | Quarterly results and Bulla na jana unicorn

It’s quarterly results' season now, or as Indian share market uncles will tell you: “Dhando nu time”. A word to the wise retail investor...

Funnycontrol | Barbenheimer and other I-T deductions on July 31, to give your rich CA heartburn

In the spirit of the season, here are 5 ways to save tax that are not listed in the laws.

Barbie or Oppenheimer? Which will you subscribe to this weekend?

It's unlikely that either film will end up bombing at the box office. But if the hype over the movies is more sustainable than the hype in the markets right now, you can have a blast either way.

Funnycontrol | Kaun Banega Crorepati? Not finfluencers, says SEBI

The regulator's issue is with promising crores in months and lakhs in days - a lot like how parents sell marriage as the perfect solution to all your problems including your losses in crypto.

Humour: How Funnycontrol stretched his truth on International Yoga Day

An exercise in stretching the body, and expanding one's comfort zone.

Funnycontrol | The manager from sales hell

If Carrie Minati was a HDFC sales manager...

Funnycontrol | Sitar Exchange Board of India censures Sinfluencers

Funnycontrol on SEBI pulling the plug on financial influencers, whom people pay money to hear their market knowledge. Who wins in the bargain?

Funnycontrol | When mental health is out of budget for the Indian budget traveller

Funnycontrol compares the world-famous Indian budget traveller with the Union Budget, which promises to deliver a lot every year but only digs deeper into your wallet.

Funnycontrol | TCS: Tax Comedy at Source

Wherever there is a law, it is your sacred duty as an Indian to find a loophole.

Funnycontrol | Twitter’s new CEO does the Yaccarino

It would be interesting if the first thing Linda Yaccarino does after becoming CEO is taking away Elon Musk’s blue tick.

Funnycontrol | The coronation of King Charles: Long road from blueblood to blue chip

Reading about the details of the coronation sounds about as exciting as reading the full red herring prospectus of an IPO before the days of digitization. In some RHPs, the font was tinier than Jerome Powell’s pauses.

Funnycontrol | Return of gold smuggling, most common profession of 1970s & '80s Bollywood villains

In India, of course, gold is an emotion - not just an asset class. Our parents accumulate gold, tell us to accumulate gold and invest in any chit fund simply because it has the word “gold” in it.

Funnycontrol | Of Liril ads, electricity bills, and the business of summer

Funnycontrol sees climate change in his bills, flits between an AC and air cooler and ponders on the art of selling things in summer.