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StockScan: Bajaj Corp Ltd.

August 18, 2017 | | Leave a Comment

Here’s my StockScan report on Bajaj Corp, India’s leading player in the hair care industry. Click here to read the first report on V-Mart Retail.

To repeat my disclaimer, this is NOT an investment advice to buy or sell shares. This is just my analysis of the company’s business and not a stock advice. It’s important that you make your own decision.

StockScan is just my effort to compress my thoughts on a business in a single page, that forces me to focus on the most important things, and exclude the noise that too much information and analysis may bring.

Click here, if you cannot read or download the report above.


Statutory Warning: This is NOT an investment advice to buy or sell shares. Make your own decision. I do not own the stock, but my analysis may be biased, and wrong. I, Vishal Khandelwal, am a registered Research Analyst as per SEBI (Research Analyst) Regulations, 2014 (Registration No. INH000000578).

Two Wise Men: 40 Stories for Children Inspired from the Wit and Wisdom of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

August 15, 2017 | | 7 Comments

In July 2016, Bill Gates wrote a memoir on his 25 years of friendship with Warren Buffett. Here is how Gates started his memoir –

I don’t remember the exact day I first met most of my friends, but with Warren Buffett I do. It was 25 years ago today: July 5, 1991.

I think the date stands out in my mind so clearly because it marked the beginning of a new and unexpected friendship for Melinda and me—one that has changed our lives for the better in every imaginable way.

Warren has helped us do two things that are impossible to overdo in one lifetime: learn more and laugh more.

That last note caught my attention. Including the two lessons that Gates learned from Warren, there are four most important lessons I have learned from studying the latter and his partner Charlie Munger over the past 15+ years.

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StockScan: V-Mart Retail Ltd.

August 10, 2017 | | 11 Comments

“Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.” ~ Louise Brooks This is an idea about brevity, so let me be brief. StockScan is Safal Niveshak’s latest initiative where I will write and share to-the-point, one-page reports on listed Indian companies on a regular basis. If you have been a reader of Safal Niveshak […]

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Inverting the Money Problem

August 7, 2017 | | 12 Comments

In the controversial movie, The Social Network, which supposedly portrayed Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook journey, Sean Parker’s character famously quipped – “A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” It’s probably the most favourite problem that majority of the individuals in the world are trying to figure out i.e., how to get rich? […]

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My Stock Selection Framework

August 3, 2017 | | 23 Comments

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What’s needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. ~ Warren Buffett My fundamental philosophy of life: Preparation. Discipline. Patience. Decisiveness. ~ Charlie Munger Combining whatever […]

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Math is the Simple Part

July 31, 2017 | | 5 Comments

“Investing is simple, but not easy,” said Charlie Munger. Why? Because… Understanding that sensible investing is about buying a thing worth Rs 100 at Rs 50 is simple, but actually buying something worth Rs 100 that falls to Rs 50 is not easy. Working on spreadsheets is simple, but not twisting spreadsheets to fit your […]

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Move Forward, But with Caution: Lessons from Howard Marks on How to Deal with Bull Markets

July 28, 2017 | | 5 Comments

Recent advances in neuroscience and physiology have shown that when we take risk, including financial risk, we do a lot more than just think about it. We prepare for it physically. Our bodies, expecting action, switch on an emergency network of physiological circuitry, and the resulting surge in electrical and chemical activity feeds back on […]

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Our First Money Workshop for Children – Some Key Lessons Learned

July 25, 2017 | | 6 Comments

If compound interest is so good, why do we have simple interest? If bankers know so much about money, they must be the richest in the world, right? If you get more knowledgeable as you grow up, why don’t you get wiser with money? Why don’t they teach us about saving and investing in schools? […]

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