The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself. ~ Warren Buffett
Learn to Pick Great Stocks with My Premium, Online Course in Value Investing – Mastermind.
Join 10,000+ students from 30+ countries and learn the structured, step-by-step process of stock picking as practiced by the world’s most successful stock market investors.
Note: 17th Batch Admission are now closed. Pre-register below for the 18th batch.
- 7 modules – 50 detailed, downloadable lessons with case studies of listed Indian companies
- 26+ hours of pre-recorded lecture and Q&A videos
- 2 Live Q&A sessions spread over one-year
- Exclusive, members-only forum for questions and exercises (rich archive of 6,000+ postings from past students)
- Assignments and exercises at the end of each lesson to help you practice what you learn
- 7 readymade stock screens to help you identify the best businesses to invest in and worst to avoid
- 100% online: Start instantly and learn at your own schedule
- Detailed stock analysis spreadsheet (otherwise priced at ₹1999)
A Structured Approach to Stock Picking Practiced by the World’s Best Investors
There are no secrets to the art of sensible stock picking that most people don’t know of. The literature has been there since the 1940s, when Ben Graham, the father of value investing, first wrote about it in his landmark book The Intelligent Investor.
Other practitioners of this art, like Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Seth Klarman, Walter Schloss, and Howard Marks have been writing about it for years now.
So, you can find hundreds and thousands of resources in print and on the Internet on how you can become a smart, successful investor. However, what I found lacking ever since I started learning this art of sensible stock picking myself, was a structured, step-by-step approach to do it.
I never knew where to start and how to proceed. I could never find a mentor who would hand-hold me in my learning journey.
With this thought in mind, and after interacting with a lot of investors who were sailing in the same boat as I was, I set out eight years back to combine all my investment learning of more than a decade – both personal experiences and what I learned vicariously – to create a course that teaches its students what the world’s best investors have practiced for years i.e., Value Investing, and how they did it successfully.
I also sifted through a mountain of amazing books, documents, lectures, and other resources so that I could bring on the table just the very best ideas and lessons in investing and building wealth for other investors to learn.
And thus was born The Safal Niveshak Mastermind – my premium, online course in Value Investing.
The Safal Niveshak Mastermind is a step-by-step, structured approach to teach you the stock picking process that has created some of the best investors in the world.
The goal of The Safal Niveshak Mastermind Course is simple – To help you get richer every single day.
What’s Mastermind All About?
The Safal Niveshak Mastermind Course will take you through the entire process of becoming a value investor, including –
- Creating the right value investing mindset
- Building a behavioural framework to avoid biases and create the right investment thought process
- Widening your circle of competence by learning how to analyze industries
- Assessing business quality – separating good from gruesome
- Analyzing financial statements to find well-performing businesses
- Estimating intrinsic valuations using various time-tested methods
- Identifying competitive moats and whether they are sustainable or fleeting
- Building and managing a portfolio of sound businesses
Detailed Lessons and Videos
Exhaustive notes and lessons and 26+ hours of pre-recorded video classes and Q&A sessions that will help you learn the nuances of Value Investing and how you can apply it to create long-term wealth through stock investing.
Exercises
All lessons contain exercises, assignments and questions to test your learning at regular intervals.
Learn At Your Pace
Convenient 24X7 online availability of all lessons, so you can do it from anywhere, anytime. Once downloaded, you keep them for ever.
Members-Only Forum
As a student, you get access to a members-only forum for discussions and performing exercises after each lesson. The forum is already a rich reservoir of postings from past students.
Detailed Curriculum
Module 1 – Introduction to Value Investing
Learn the core rules of Value Investing, how these have evolved over the years from Graham to Buffett, and whether these work for a small investor.
- Value investing principles and premises
- Being a value investor
- Is value investing really profitable
- Key tenets of Benjamin Graham
- Value investing – From Graham to Buffett
- Most important things in investing
Module 2 – Investing & Human Behaviour
Learn the psychology of investing and how you can go about creating the right mindset and a latticework of mental models to become a successful value investor.
- Creating a value investor’s mindset
- Psychology of investing
- Building a latticework of mental models
- How to think about the stock market
Module 3 – How to Generate Ideas
Understand how to build your circle of competence and identify quality businesses by reading through their annual reports and financial statements.
- How to build your circle of competence
- How to analyze any industry
- How to generate stock ideas
- How to read an annual report
- Analysis of financial statements (Balance sheet, Income statement, Cash flow statement)
- Analyzing key ratio
- Financial shenanigans
Module 4 – Building the Case
Learn how to find businesses that will stand the test of time. Also understand what separates good managements from financial engineers.
- Understanding competitive moats
- Key numbers in analyzing moats
- Differentiate between great and gruesome business
- Assessing the quality of management
- Key sins of analyzing businesses
Module 5 – Valuations – Challenging Mr. Market
Understand what value really means and how to calculate it using several time-tested methods.
- Understanding value
- Key valuation methods
- Discounted cash flow valuation
- Dhandho valuation framework
- Expected returns valuation model
- Relative valuation methods
- Understanding margin of safety
Modules 6 & 7 – Making Decisions
Learn how to deal with risk and uncertainty, the importance of process vs. outcome, and how to construct a portfolio of quality stocks.
- Power of investing checklists
- Constructing a stock portfolio
- Concentration vs. diversification
- Creating a sound investment philosophy
- Immutable laws of investing
- Deadly sins of investing
- Go, compound!
Sample Video Content
Value Investing Principles
Financial Stat. Analysis
Math of Valuations
Mastermind Forum
Mastermind students get access to an exclusive, members-only forum to ask their questions and complete exercises that are part of the course. The forum is also a rich archive of more than 6,000 posts, questions, and experiences shared by past students over the previous 10 years.
Pre-Register for 18th Batch
17th Batch Admissions are now closed. Please pre-register here to be the first to know when I open admission for the 18th batch.
What Mastermind Students Are Saying
Mastermind has strengthened my investment skills and techniques, allowing me to know which stocks are fundamentally sound.
Sean S.
SingaporeVishal’s course has given me the tools and explained how to use them as well. I find myself indebted to his teachings.
Varenya A.
IndiaI consider Mastermind as one of my life changing journeys. By subscribing, I pat myself on taking the best decision at this stage of my life in improving myself.
N. Venkateswaran
IndiaMastermind not only teaches you about investing, but also shows you the way to create your own investing philosophy.
Nishant M.
IndiaThe first investment an investor must make is “Mastermind.” Why? Its price is very low compared to its intrinsic value.
Jana V.
USMastermind helps evolve individual investment philosophy and equips one with the technical skills and right frame of mind to make investment decisions.
Gaurav B.
IndiaOne of the best courses I have ever done, and one of the best investments I have made. I recommend the course to anyone who is interested in value investing.
Antony S.
USOne of the best courses I have ever done, and one of the best investments I have made. I recommend the course to anyone who is interested in value investing.
Antony S.
USThe beauty of Mastermind is that it breaks down this whole overly pretentious subject of “investment research/analysis” into simple, easy to understand “lessons”.
Jay J.
India
World’s Best Investor’s Advice
Warren Buffett, one of the world’s best value investor ever, often says, “The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” That could very well be the best advice Mr. Buffett has ever offered.
There has never been a better time to put your future squarely in your own hands – and master a valuable skill like sensible stock picking that will help you forever…now and right through your retirement years. That’s exactly what Mastermind could help you with. You’ll get the nuts and bolts of value investing. And you’ll learn the investment process that’s proven successful for several decades. And I will be there, working hard to help you succeed.