Portfolio Construction
Portfolio construction

Most investors lack a coherent portfolio construction strategy. Making money off individual stocks is easier than making money off a portfolio because not all your stocks will perform well at…

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Common mistakes, biases and other mental models

How does an investor become rich? The simple answer is by not losing money. Just to illustrate this point – a small sum of Rs. 1 lakh compounded at 25%…

The Investor’s Edge: Behaviour
The Investor’s Edge: Behaviour

Let's talk about  the second and equally if not more significant edge that investors can develop: behavior. To read more about the factors that can help an investor gain an…

The Investor’s Edge: Variant Perception
The Investor’s Edge: Variant Perception

Making money in the stock market requires an investor to be contrarian and challenge the market’s conventional wisdom. Unlike US markets which are very efficient, it’s still relatively easy to…

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Investing Styles

Investing has multiple schools of thought which have been known to generate high returns at different points of time in the past. Practitioners often hold passionate debates about the superiority…

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Investing Models

If you are reading my blogs for the first time, I would recommend you start with the blog on Investing Styles. Once that is done, here are certain investing models…