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How Warren Buffett adopted Benjamin Graham’s principles, but with some changes to the modern context?

Often considered the founder of value investing, Benjamin Graham developed a defensive investment approach that attempted to save investors from large losses while yielding modest gains. His approach to investing focused on choosing undervalued, financially stable businesses with a “margin of safety.” Graham offered a rigorous framework for assessing defensive investing strategies in his well-known …

The concept of ‘Margin of Safety’ in investing

According to Warren Buffett, the three words “margin of safety” are the foundation of investing success. Global and local geopolitical developments must prompt us to consider if our portfolio was prepared to deal with extended, deep corrections. A profound unpleasant correction will undoubtedly occur at some time throughout a 30- to 40-year investing journey. Having …

Has retirement become a real challenge for Indians?

This generation of Indians has an extremely difficult task in supporting their retirement. Recently, every conversation about retirement in India has devolved into a dispute about whether the New Pension System or the Old Pension Scheme is preferable. However, this topic is meaningless to 96% of Indians because the Central and State governments employ just approximately …

A quick comparison of Equity Vs Gold Vs Real Estate

Many people neglect or ignore a few basic and frequent factors of their financial well-being. As we all know, major investment classes include real estate, gold, and financial instruments such as stocks and bonds. If you buy a house to live in, this is considered consumption. In a similar way buying gold or jewellery to …

Are Indian Households investing more in stocks ?

From April 2020 to March 2023, Indian household financial savings totaled Rs. 86.2 lakh crore. Of this, 31.6 lakh crore went into fixed deposits with banks and other financial institutions, while 5.1 lakh crore went into mutual funds and equities, accounting for around 6% of the total movement. That is, just 6% has been invested in mutual funds …

Should you use equity to achieve your life goals?

Say you have a goal of purchasing a house in 5 years and another goal of your child’s higher education in 10 years. You would normally invest in a 5-year bank recurrent deposit (RD) and an exchange-traded fund (ETF) for the 1st goal. Likewise, you will invest in a 10-year RD and a different ETF …