How to Add to Value Investing?

In its purest form, value investing involves solely buying cheap companies. Just cheap companies. Studies of valuation either use high minus low (buying the cheapest stocks and shorting the most expensive stocks) or separate stocks into deciles (10 evenly split groups) or quintiles (five evenly split groups) based on their relative valuation ratios. No consideration…

Two Most Important Investing Decisions

There are so many interesting things to debate in investing. The active vs. passive debate has been the subject of more articles than I can count. Although the conclusion that most people should invest passively is clear, there are many nuances to it that continue to be debated every day. And for those people that…

Equity Updates – Asahi Songwon Colours

Sold off Asahi Songwon for a very good profit.  The below shown chart should give you an idea of how much the stock grew in the past 1 year. Also bought more stocks of MIC Electronics & Graphite India This year the dividend payout has been pretty good. Add to that bonus shares from both…

Mutual Fund Portfolio

Continuing from the previous post about the equity portfolio, this is the mutual funds portfolio. Over a period of time, Franklin Templeton Prima fund went from being a 5 star to a 2 star fund.  It has underperformed the peers in the market, but compared to the S&P CNX Nifty over a period of time,…