<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Money Stories Asset Management]]></title><description><![CDATA[Growing Your Wealth, Securing Your Future]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:13:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.estaddo.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Beijing Truce]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Room That Explains Everything On May 12, 2026, Beijing's airport offered an image no press release could have staged better. Stepping off the plane alongside American trade officials were Tim Cook of Apple, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, and Elon Musk of Tesla not as observers, but as participants. Inside China's most prestigious government building, these CEOs stood beside American ministers as they were introduced to President Xi Jinping. The summit happened because 2025 had been expensive for...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/the-beijing-truce</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a15ab863834ba6543d73141</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 16:01:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_abaf5441926249359c447420ad9f7ab0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ten-Minute Company: Inside the Bets on India's Fastest-Growing Retail Channel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Money Stories Alternate Investment Fund Cat III (IN/AIF3/25-26/1897) India's two delivery giants  Zomato and Swiggy, are no longer just food delivery companies. Both have quietly evolved into multi-segment platforms, each with a distinct portfolio of businesses operating under one umbrella. Zomato today runs four business lines: its flagship food delivery platform, Blinkit for quick commerce, Hyperpure - a B2B ingredients and supply chain business serving restaurants, and the newly launched...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/the-ten-minute-company-inside-the-bets-on-india-s-fastest-growing-retail-channel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a036f38f6126ac2c9cee0f9</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 18:53:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_f904e41be26f48c38b1074e8c41cd1bc~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Guilder To Dollar: The Power Behind Money]]></title><description><![CDATA[Money Stories Alternate Investment Fund Cat III (IN/AIF3/25-26/1897) At any point in time, one currency sits at the center of the global financial system. It is the currency used to settle trade, store reserves, and price assets across borders. Today, that role is played by the US Dollar. But before that, it was the British Pound. And before that, the Dutch Guilder and different systems altogether. At the center of this global trade race was India. Around 1700, India accounted for roughly 24%...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/from-guilder-to-dollar-the-power-behind-money</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f0a1be89aa25024edf8e04</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:35:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_5f63ec5ed9fb406c99cc817214ed0e46~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Debt That Runs the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Story of the United States, and the Nature of Borrowed Power 1. The Number Everyone Knows, But Few Contextualize The United States today carries over $39 trillion in federal debt. At face value, that number feels abstract,  too large to comprehend, too familiar to question. But absolute numbers are analytically weak without structure. Debt must be evaluated through four lenses: Growth vs. borrowing cost  - is the economy expanding faster than the interest bill? Composition of spending  - is...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/the-debt-that-runs-the-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69de4f27698fcbe5d29ee255</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:38:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_685413955c5c4822bb9528ddbb2c248f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Growth Isn't Growth -The Gold Loan Illusion]]></title><description><![CDATA[India’s gold loan sector recently has, by most conventional measures, delivered strong outcomes.  Since FY 23 companies such as Muthoot Finance have reported: Revenue Growth of around 36% CAGR Profit growing at 39% CAGR And an operating profit growth at 39% CAGR What stands out is that this growth has come from a product backed by one of the most liquid forms of collateral  yet consistently priced at relatively high yields. At a glance, the picture holds together. The more useful question is...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/when-growth-isn-t-growth-the-gold-loan-illusion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cbf584c69c7f728436cfaa</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:12:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_1aa8f472dbe843cea42e0b79be019b46~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[India’s retail revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[India today stands among the fastest-growing major economies in the world, driven by a combination of structural strengths and strategic shifts like - Make in India  and the China+1  strategy. Population of approximately 1.4 billion enabling a deep talent pool. Strategic geopolitical positioning and sustained infrastructural development. These have created powerful structural growth engines for the economy. This growth has led to a few trends - India is moving higher up the value chain....]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/india-s-retail-revolution</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b828c558e9babc6437b9fe</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:59:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_f24180bfcb0f4f1cb89dfc62300cbadd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iran Conflict’s Economic Reach into India]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brief Context The Strait of Hormuz is a 33-kilometre stretch of water that happens to be one of the most important pieces of geography for the Indian economy.  A fifth of the world's oil passes through it every day, and there is no other way for that oil to get out. If the strait gets clogged, every country that buys oil feels it at once. This week's escalation in the region has already disrupted supply chains, with tankers diverting and insurance premiums for Gulf cargoes climbing sharply....]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/the-iran-conflict-s-economic-reach-into-india</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a70038b220091e29d7f7f8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:28:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_fa5d024b67c841218e68f001866ddc5b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychology of market cycles]]></title><description><![CDATA[The price of a stock is driven by many factors such as fundamentals, valuations, liquidity, news and technicals. But beneath all of these lies a more powerful force: human behavior . Individual emotions compound at the market level, creating waves of optimism, fear, and overreaction that can significantly distort price discovery. Behavioral finance is not merely a theoretical framework that can be mastered through study. Many of its effects operate subconsciously, shaping how we interpret...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/psychology-of-market-cycles</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69946690a8ff0d3b097f61d6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:46:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_7d359f69621d477ba14f4d81a28bb626~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treasuries - connecting the dots]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the first four parts of the Treasury series, we explored the evolution of money , from early barter systems to commodity money and finally to fiat currencies in their current form. At  every stage, money evolved in response to the limitations of its previous form. Barter failed due to inefficiency and lack of standardisation. Commodity money addressed trust but struggled with scalability and portability. Fiat currencies solved these constraints by breaking the link between money and...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/treasuries-connecting-the-dots</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698213f599fa9e70ea626262</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:42:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_ec4e2d2f610b4c158fb6f72956e53c03~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[500% Tariffs: A Cheat-code to Growth?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In April 2025, Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs across multiple nations, imposing duties exceeding 100% on some countries, particularly China. The narrative was familiar: foreign nations were being unfair, American industries were suffering, and tariffs would restore domestic manufacturing while keeping jobs inside the United States. Tariffs have long been politically attractive because they appear simple: tax foreign goods, protect local firms, and save domestic jobs. But history...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/500-tariffs-a-cheat-code-to-growth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696f1c1aa5f9dd009d394f53</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:30:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_ef91af4df8cf4ce7981405da1baed51b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World’s First Market Bubble]]></title><description><![CDATA[Throughout history there have been many major events that have shaped the course of how economies, industries and companies evolved. In this series, we will attempt to break down some of these events and try to understand the reasons, causes, and the impact it has had on how markets and its many constituents behave and what we can learn out of it. In this blog, we’re exploring the story behind the world’s very first financial bubble, an event that many have never heard of, yet one that...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/the-world-s-first-market-bubble</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6965f8940ef3e0e1c079dd28</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:22:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_80e5e5ba37fb4da49504b93d854791ec~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution of money]]></title><description><![CDATA[Money feels like a modern invention, but the idea behind it is far older than coins, banks, or governments. Long before nations existed, humans needed a way to trade with each other, first within small villages, then across growing communities, and eventually across continents. As societies became more complex, simple barter stopped working. A fisherman could not always find a baker who wanted fish, and a farmer could not divide a cow into equal pieces for trade. People needed something more...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/evolution-of-money</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6953777e386e8faaa221c80f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:25:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_3a7ccb9ab2bd4ac6b9af70bc0de88d23~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silver: From Monetary Metal to Industrial Powerhouse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Silver is once again commanding attention. Prices are elevated, narratives are building, and interest across markets has intensified. Yet silver has never been a simple asset. Its behaviour is shaped by history, industrial relevance, and financial markets all at once. To understand where silver may head, it is essential to first understand what silver represents  and why it behaves the way it does . Silver’s History and Significance For centuries, silver played a central role in global...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/silver-from-monetary-metal-to-industrial-powerhouse</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6953c993a5fe1667fd78fd56</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:48:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_f938a316c093447a96ade90155edd316~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[NBFCs: superior to banks?]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a common perception that NBFCs are structurally disadvantaged when compared to banks and therefore cannot perform on par with them. From raising capital at rates close to where banks lend, resulting in a higher cost of capital, to serving narrower customer segments where banks cater to a much broader base across products and geographies, banks often appear to have a clear edge. At first glance, this conclusion seems reasonable. However, we hold a view that may differ from the...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/nbfcs-superior-to-banks</link><guid isPermaLink="false">694aa17cc47fff7362f9be92</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:13:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_a3ed7e29075c41148794642746e93cd4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look Beyond Growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this week’s blog we are going to cover an important aspect of fundamental analysis. When researching a stock, many of us look for revenue and profit growth as some of the most important indicators right? Growth may look impressive on paper, but here's the catch: not all growth creates value. Two companies can show identical 20% profit growth, yet one enriches shareholders while the other silently dilutes them. The difference lies in the underlying quality: the efficiency of capital...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/look-beyond-growth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6942829e88941a3729251c3c</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:19:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_03807a89873d4644b4d01fdd20bed9ec~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do Other Metals Have Place In Treasuries?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Part 1 of this series, we traced the forces that keep gold  at the centre of global finance , from its declining reserves to its rising demand in a world shaped by geopolitics. If anything became clear, it was that gold's place is unique in this world. Gold is exceptional, but what stops other metals from stepping into its role? Silver is abundant in history, platinum is rarer than gold, copper powers the modern world, yet none of the other metals, despite their utility, have become...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/do-other-metals-have-place-in-treasuries</link><guid isPermaLink="false">693842f0f99ccc1a7aa76200</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:54:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_899e3e9fef6b4e8587d880c8820c81de~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will gold ever lose its shine?]]></title><description><![CDATA[GOLD  has been making headlines, from its sudden price surge to central banks around the world ramping up their holdings. Once known for its quiet stability, gold is entering a new era. But what exactly is driving this shift? And is gold still the undisputed king of reserves? Why gold has always mattered For over 4,500 years, gold has shaped economies, empires, and monetary systems. Its place in monetary history is not accidental, but is rooted in a few enduring qualities: Durability -  Gold...]]></description><link>https://www.moneystories.in/post/will-gold-ever-lose-its-shine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6926bc74e132343177f2fa8c</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:46:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c46ffd_5b1d9c0aa0d34979a27a4d773e7413b8~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>MS Blogs</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>