Value Investors’ Forum of India: Stock Investment Management Club

The Need: A place to gather for like-minded Indian investors Online forums or communities are great places where you could discuss interesting topics, talk to experts, clear your doubts, and gather valuable information on any subject. I have been longing for a while to become a member of one such good value investors’ forum in … Read more

Free Download of Annual Reports of Listed Indian Companies in PDF

Preface As a sensible stock market investor, the first and foremost thing you need to do before investing in any company is to read its annual reports. Preferably, it has to be for the last economic cycle, i.e., the past 10 years, or the least the past 5 years. By the way, an annual report … Read more

Warren Buffett Quotes on Investing, Business, Stocks, Risk, Debt

Warren Buffett shares his experiences and thoughts as an investor in his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and often in his public appearances. His nuggets of elementary wisdom are indeed hard and fast rules to be adopted by any youngster aspiring to get rich over time. I regret for having not been able to … Read more

How Come Stocks are Historically the Best Investment Asset Class?

Preface Historically, stocks delivered superior returns over any other asset class. Any financial adviser will advise you to allocate a significant portion of your money into stocks citing the aforesaid statistic. But how and why? Why stocks as an asset class performed well over the long term than any other investment type? What is the … Read more

9 Interesting Characteristics of Successful Self-Made Businessmen

Have you ever wondered how those successful self-made businessmen made it? Have you analyzed those rags to riches success stories? Believe me, such stories not only happen in movies but can happen in our real lives too if we could acquire, develop, and practice some personality traits. Out of the college as a youngster, I … Read more

Can You Replicate Warren Buffett’s Success, Investing in Stocks?

I think the immediate answer that you would get if you ask any successful investor on how to successfully invest in stocks would be to “Invest like Warren Buffett!” However, can you replicate Warren Buffett’s success investing in stocks even in this century? Let us analyze. First of all, how did Warren Buffett become the … Read more