Value Investing Almanack: Special Offer
I have a special announcement to make today. Value Investing Almanack (VIA), our premium newsletter that subscribers call “the best resource on Value Investing in India,” which was closed for new subscriptions for the past few months, is now accepting new members, and at a very special price. VIA brings to you the best and biggest ideas in …
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Regret Missing the Rally in Stocks? Now What?
In March 2020, when stocks all around were sinking, I wrote a post about how I was investing my money. In that post, I mentioned about a stock I had bought in mid-February 2020 that was down 60% from my original purchase price in just a month. My total investment in the stock was then around 3% of my stock portfolio, and it was down 55% from the …
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Want to Become a Full-Time Investor? Here’s Your Checklist
One of the most common questions I get asked by people I meet in my workshops and through email is – “I have a passion in investing and would love to do it full-time. So how do I prepare to become a full-time investor?” With the last few years of reasonably good performance from the overall stock market, and with more and more people flouting …
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What Money Worry Keeps You Awake At Night?
Understanding and containing the chance of losing money in investing is a full time job. The markets remind us of that practically every day. So, how much ever homework you do, some of your investments are bound to fail…or will fail. You shudder when the thought of losing money springs up — something you just don’t want to think …
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The Secret to Learning Anything
I've been trying a lot of things these days to connect my 9-year old son Chaitanya with a variety of new learnings - in life, human behaviour, how the mind works, ethics, and how to develop good lifelong habits. To say that I have been successful in making this connection would be an overstatement. There are some aspects about such learning that …
Jet Airways and the Dangers of ‘Buy and Hope’
Though I do not read business media of any sort, this popped up on my phone yesterday and I could not help but read - …
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A Father’s 16 Lessons for His Daughter
The last time I wrote a long letter to my daughter was when she was less than eight years old. She completes sixteen today, and being a teacher (with a man-with-the-hammer syndrome) I could not think of anything better to offer her than sixteen lessons on living a good life. Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Youtube | …
Investing Math is the Simple Part
“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 version of reality is …
Result: Value Investing Contest 2020
Late last month, I had announced the 2020 edition of Safal Niveshak's Value Investing Contest, inviting participants to send SELL or AVOID reports on listed Indian companies of their choice. I received around forty reports, and to say the least, this was the most difficult contest for me to judge given the good quality analysis sent by almost …
Lesson in Valuation from a 2200-Year-Old Greek Mathematician
By the fifth century BC, the Greeks had firmly established that the earth was a sphere. Although they knew it was a sphere, they did not know how big the sphere was. The philosopher Plato (400 BC) declared the earth's circumference to be 64,412 km. Some 150 years later, the mathematician Archimedes estimated it to be 48,309 km. It is not …
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