Retail auto sales dipped to a 20-month low in August. The slump in auto sales led Maruti and Toyota to announce the closure of plants for a few days this month. Speaking at an annual convention of auto manufacturers, Tata Motors CEO Guenter Butschek attributed the slowdown to low consumer sentiment and non-availability of liquidity. This drives home the difficulty of timing a sector, over and above the difficulty of timing the market.
Since we are talking autos, here is a cool tidbit that should also get you thinking about retirement planning.
This is important, and it is worth repeating. The past few months have been turbulent. Especially for new investors, it would be the first time you would be seeing a prolonged period of either no gains (large caps) or losses (small and mid-caps). A lot of people will come to you now to tell you how they could have helped you better navigate the uncertain markets in exchange for a hefty fee implying that you are somehow not doing the right things.
The evidence from investors on Kuvera shows otherwise. While the turbulence continued in August the investors on Kuvera, showed that we understand market cycles.
We behaved.
We were not bogged down by market uncertainty or discouraged by losses. We carried on with our investment plans and did nothing and continued with their SIPs, which is what behavioural science would want us to do as well.
When the minds were twitchy, and the hands were itchy,
We took the harder route of doing nothing.
The Income Tax Department saw an unprecedented jump in the e-filing of ITRs with an all-time-high record of 49,29,121 ITRs filed in a single day on 31st August 2019. Over 5.65 crore income tax returns were filed by taxpayers for the Assessment Year 2019-20, compared to 5.42 crore in the previous year.
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Movers & Shakers
1/ Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund has appointed Aditya Khemani as Fund Manager of Motilal Oswal Long Term Equity Fund and Key Personnel of the Company.
2/ Canara Robeco AMC has announced that Robbert C Vonk has ceased to be the COO, CFO and Key Personnel of the company. Albert Wisgerhof has been appointed in his stead.
3/ Baroda Mutual Fund has announced that Sanjay Chawla has ceased to be a co-fund manager of Baroda Equity Savings Fund. Pratish Krishnan has been appointed to the role from 5th September onward..
4/ UTI Mutual Fund has announced that Lalit Gopalan Nambiar, Fund Manager-Equity, ceases to be Key Person of UTI Asset Management Company Ltd.
Quote of the week:
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!
: Kurt Vonnegut
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