Preface As you know, I have been an advocate of concentrated portfolio for quite some time now. Among friends, I used to refer each stock as a wife. The more you have the more the trouble! I’d say as you pick your life partner, you need to know the ins and outs of a business. … Read more
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
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
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
Investing in stocks is easy, fun, and rewarding if you stick to certain principles. Stock picking is not rocket science. You only need to know the underlying dynamics of a business, value that business, and arrive at a price at which you would like to buy that business, providing a large margin of safety to … Read more
Gold price is scaling new heights every day. Obviously, there arises this question in everyone’s mind: “Should I invest in gold and take part in the rally?” The pros that support these thoughts are a downgrade of the US treasury bonds by the rating agency Standard and Poor’s. Apparently, with a weak economy, the US … Read more