The Story When we first started this site in November 2011, we were not sure how long this experiment would last. Our first post was all (or rather only) about number crunching and to confess, very very boring. 🙂 But…
Dev Ashish
Dev is a SEBI-Registered Investment Advisor (Fee Only SEBI RIA). He works with small investors as well as HNI clients across India. If you want to get unbiased, proper and tailor-made financial advice, you can get in touch with him for Goal-based Financial Planning, Retirement Planning, Mutual Fund Portfolio Review and HNI (Affluent) Portfolio Advisory.
Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL): A good business is not always a good stock
HUL is an example of a great business. It has a portfolio of famous FMCG brands that every Indian uses atleast once a day. Who wouldn’t recognize Lux, Lifebouy, Kissan, Rin, Surf, Axe, Close Up, Dove, Fair & Lovely, Sunsilk…
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What is the purpose of Stable Investor?
In the book Good to Great, the author introduces the “Hedgehog Concept” He tells a story of a hedgehog and a fox. The fox is always looking for ways to attack the hedgehog. However, he fails everytime. Why? Because hedgehog…
Cairn India: A dividend stock to buy for long term?
Vedanta controlled Cairn India has declared its maiden dividend of Rs 5 per share (of face value Rs 10). In April 2012, Cairn India had approved its dividend policy, which aimed at payout of around 20% of its annual consolidated…
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25 Tips to be a Better Investor: Investor’s Manifesto
As promised in our last post on why you cannot become a successful investor, we now share 25 tips to help you become a better investor. For sharing the tips, we have chosen the manifesto approach. Don't know what a…
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You cannot become a Successful Investor!
Let's get this straight. Someone has rightly said:(Successful) Investing is simple. But tough.And once you have gone through this flowchart, having answered a few questions about your very own self, you would know why most people fail to become successful…
Don’t Invest for Short Term. Don’t Save for Long Term
Many times, we use the words Savings & Investing interchangeably. Some people don't even realize the difference between these words. One should not invest for short-term goals. One should not save for long-term goals. So what should one…
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Starbucks in India: Choose between a Coffee for Rs 150 or Rs 1.65 Lacs from SIP?
Starbucks has finally opened its first store in India. Being in Mumbai, we got an opportunity to check out the store on very first day. Lucky us... 🙂 From Starbucks (India) website Checking the menu, we found that a cup…
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How often should you check your stock portfolio?
This post is based on OSV’s post by Daniel Sparks. Daniel was kind enough to permit use of his idea for this post. Thanks Daniel :-)So how often do you check your stock portfolio? We have personally seen people checking…
Building a portfolio for lazy investors
Nature's depiction of a Lazy Investor Not everyone has time or energy to invest in stock markets. Some have the money to invest. But everyone wants to make money in stock markets 😉 It is like saying that one wants…
Huge returns given by Nifty 50 Stocks & how we got it right back then :-)
You must be wondering – Why 10 months? And not something more rounded-off like 1, 2 or 5 years? The reason is that in December 2011 (about 10 months back), we wrote about Nifty 50 stocks and prices which they…
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Adding a new ‘State of the Market’ Tab
We have added a State of the Market tab that shows P/E, P/BV & Dividend Yield related data for last quarter (for broader markets). Although such information is regularly covered in other posts, this dedicated page allows easy viewing of…
3 things to do before investing in stock markets
All of us want to make money in stock markets. And given a chance, we would love to become Warren Buffet (lol) :-). But we believe that stock markets are inherently risky. And when dealing with risks, one should be…
Best Nifty Stocks and 3 questions that let us shortlist them
Taking cues from Morgan Stanley’s ‘Connecting the Dots’ (June 2012), we decided to shortlist our own set of dependable stocks. For this we used following filters –Filter 1: Is the Sales growth faster than nominal GDP growth?This can be achieved…
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Power of doing nothing in stock markets – Indian Stock Markets Perspective
A study found that a goalkeeper who stands in the middle — the stock market equivalent of doing nothing — has better success than one who tries to guess which way a free kick will come. It was found that…
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