Showing posts with label Fools Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fools Wisdom. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2015

Is there a ‘Bubble’ in Quality?

The entry of ‘quality’ and ‘moat’ into the lexicon of most investors has resulted in valuations of these businesses touching stratospheric levels. Consequently, investors of today are faced with some difficult decisions.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Fool’s Wisdom #4 : An alternate approach to position sizing

Howard Marks in his classic, The most important thing, divides the investing community into people who think that the future can be foreseen or the ‘I know’ group as against the ‘I don’t know’ group viz those who believe that it is absolutely impossible to tell what tomorrow will bring.


Thursday, November 21, 2013

Fool’s Wisdom # 3: Tennis v/s Roulette



Students of behavioral finance and game theory would have probably read about the group mind exercise which involves choosing a number between 0 and 100 such that the winning number is 2/3rd the average of the guesses of the group. 

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Fool’s Wisdom # 2: One, Few, Many or All??

No framework on portfolio construction can be developed without first choosing between the camps of concentration and diversification. In this second, of a four part series, we discuss the subject as we see it.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Fool's Wisdom # 1 -Its how much that matters !!!

Whenever a novice investor suffers financial losses in markets pat comes the advice from relatively seasoned players “Consider it as tution fees for your learning”. After having paid (and continuing to pay) enormous amounts of such tution fees on numerous occasions we are beginning an attempt at collating some learnings through posts thus appropriately labeled “Fool’s Wisdom”.