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Portfolio Yoga - Part 4
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January Newsletter – Fear of Draw-down

Outside of Twitter, when I meet traders / investors, one word that never is much of a talking point is drawdown. One reason is most investors and traders don’t even calculate a NAV styled return matrix to understand where they stand relative to where they were say a month ago or a year ago. Maintaining performance records gives a deeper...

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Some thoughts on “Do it yourself Investing”

Mahesh had an interesting question he posed  The replies are interesting and many on the dot. But first let’s look at the performance (10 years I assume is a good start) I am using the Nifty 100 Index not the TRI since even an index fund cannot match the TRI and there is no way to replicate that performance. Standalone,...

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December Newsletter – The Rise of the Retail Investor

One of the aspects that we have seen both in the United States as well as in many other countries including India has been the rise and rise of the Retail Investor. For long seen as the weak hands, today they seem like a fearsome clan of hyenas who can take on even the King of the Forest. The attack...

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An extraordinary year has come to a close

An extraordinary year has come to a close. The gains for the year is nothing close to the best years and yet, this has been a landmark year for investors. While one remembers years like 2017 or even 2014, this year was way way special. Look at the following chart for example. It plots the average number of securities that...

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Should Equity Fund Managers take Cash Calls? – November Newsletter

It’s a question that has been debated and discussed deeply in the financial community. Those who believe equity fund managers should go to Cash when the odds aren’t favorable suggest that the objective of a fund manager is to generate superior risk adjusted returns. On the other hand, those who believe that the equity fund manager should not go to...

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Contrarian Investing – Investing in China

In recent times, there has been a lot of talk about Global Investing with all kinds of narratives spun around to make it sound that if you are not investing globally you are missing out. Nothing could be further than the truth, but selling expensive products requires a good narrative and right now with US markets providing market-beating returns, a...