Month: September 2015

The edges of being a salaried Investor

Bored with your job ? Sick of taking orders all day ? You are not the only one who is thinking of becoming full time investor, but before you take the plunge, I want to persuade you to remain in your job and continue as salaried investor (SI)

A salaried investor has tremendous edge over a full time participant in market, What are those edges ? Let explore them

Your bread is not dependent on returns from markets

This is an obvious edge, bear market or bull market, you take home a salary thereby ensuring basic necessities of you and your family is taken care of, you don’t have to sell your shares in distress to pay bills.

You will be less stuck to the screen

In any competitive job, no company will leave you without extracting 60-80 hours a week, which means you will have limited time outside work. This is great as you will miss the daily swings in markets, as Daniel Kahneman wrote in “Thinking Fast and Slow”

Closely following daily fluctuations is a losing proposition, because the pain of the frequent small losses exceeds the pleasure of the equally frequent small gains. Once a quarter

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True Diversification

Why do we add a new security to our portfolio ?
To reduce risk and ensure not all our eggs are in same basket, the underlying thought process is if stock A doesn’t do well at least stock B will provide some returns and compensate for loss if any in stock A
This makes perfect sense if you go by what Harry M. Morkowitz said in 1950’s [emphasis mine]

The investments have different types of risk characteristics, some caused systematic and market related risks and the other called unsystematic or company related risks. Markowitz diversification involves a proper number of securities, not too few or not too many which have no correlation or negative correlation. The proper choice of companies, securities, or assets whose return are not correlated and whose risks are mutually offsetting to reduce the overall risk

It explains why investors invest in diverse spectrum of industries whose fortunes are not tied to each other
However many investors feel discomfort in adding a new company from a similar industry, At least I do. My thinking process is I already own TCS what the use of adding another IT company in the portfolio ? After all the company related … Read the rest

Periodically review your portfolio

Assessing and reviewing your portfolio is critical to be on top of your positions, While till today I have not found any structured way to go about it, What has helped me to think objectively is to focus on

  • status of key variable of business
  • risks identified
  • buying hypothesis – does it still hold good

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The next question is how often do you review ? 6 months, 12 months , 2 years ? Frankly there is no right answer – But I found 6-8 months is a good period to start with

Below is my simplistic review of two businesses in model portfolio – If would be foolish to buy … Read the rest