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An Underrated Secret of Success in Life and Investing
The Art of Value Investing: Chicago and New York I am organising a couple of sessions on Value Investing in the US - If you are in or around these cities and wish to attend, kindly register here. In its obituary, The New York Times wrote this about Charlie Munger in December 2023 – Although overshadowed by Mr. Buffett, who …
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My Notes on Warren Buffett’s 2023 Letter to Shareholders
The Art of Value Investing: Chicago and New York I am organising a couple of sessions on Value Investing in the US - If you are in or around these cities and wish to attend, kindly register here. My Notes on Warren Buffett’s 2023 Letter to Shareholders Warren Buffett recently released his 2023 letter to shareholders of Berkshire …
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Rethinking Financial Freedom – A Masterclass
[Download PDF version of this post] A Masterclass on Financial Freedom 'Financial freedom' is a subject that people tie only to money and not to the peace that no amount of money or wealth would get us. It is, however, a subject matter of the understanding within, of course, along with enough money. I am holding a 2-hour …
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Mastering the Long Game of Investing
Download PDF version of this post. Shyam Sekhar on Mastering the Long Game of Investing In the latest episode of The One Percent Show, I talked to Shyam Sekhar, the Chief Ideator and Founder of iThought Financial Consulting. Among a lot of insights, Shyam talked about - On his learnings from mentors, Shyam had this to say - …
Long Term Investing is Hard
A Few Ideas I'm Thinking About Here are a few ideas I have been thinking about over the last few days. Long Term Investing is Hard The biggest reasons more people do not practice long term investing are that – Given all of this, long term investing has become an increasingly difficult and contrarian endeavour. And so, not many …
A Young Investor’s Guide to Navigating the Stock Market Wilderness
I recently met a bunch of high school students, who wanted me to explain them the ‘idea of the stock market.’ One of them asked a brilliant question, “What does the market seem like? What kind of an experience does it provide to a new investor?” …
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When to Bet Big, and When Not To
It was mid-1974. Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx had a problem at hand. FedEx was a young company, just three years old, and primarily due to rising fuel costs, found itself millions of dollars in debt and on the brink of bankruptcy. As per demands from oil companies that provided fuel to run FedEx’s planes, every Monday, the latter was …
A Young Investor’s Guide to Avoiding the Fast-Wealth Trap
In the course of my interaction with young investors, a question that’s asked by many is this – “What do you think about the idea of trading in stocks early on to create capital, and then invest that capital for the long run?” I ask, “Why do you want to do this?” Often, the reply is, “So that I can create that capital for long-term investing …
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[New Book] The Worldly Wisdom of Charlie Munger
As the first dawn of 2024 breaks, we stand at a poignant milestone. Today, Charlie Munger would have completed 100 revolutions around the sun. A century that was almost reached, yet remained just beyond grasp, as he left us on November 28, 2023. …
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23 Ideas from 2023
Right before the year ends, I thought I’d share a handful of ideas I’ve read, learned, re-learned, and wrote about in the past twelve months. Here are 23 of them, in no particular order of importance. I hope you find these useful, as much as I did. …