Practical approach to sustainable wealth
Its been a month since my last post. Most certainly the frequency of my blog posts have gone down significantly. I want to in part blame myself for the time mis-management and in part to the phenomenon called “life-happens”! Regardless, one constant in my life has been investment readings and in general keeping abreast of […]
STEP stands for (S)imple, (T)olerable, (E)nduring and (P)assive. Before I dig deep into my revised investment philosophy and the changes in AVI portfolio that it has entailed, lets take a look back into the 3-years of investing life that was guided by my prior investment philosophy, which I put to pen in late 2017. For […]
Let me begin by showing the following chart, Buffet indicator, otherwise the ratio of US total stock market valuation to US GDP, has officially crossed the peak value reached during the dot-com bubble, not withstanding the correction in the stock price of growth oriented stocks in the past week. The rapid rise in the 10 […]
As the saying goes hindsight is 2020, so are we all great to see 2020 in the hindsight! The first two weeks of 2021, however, do not seem any different from what the bygone year looked like! Covid-19 is on tear unabated, the economy is still suffering, infact, the non-farm payroll entered into negative territory […]
Inner Self vs. Outer Self The other day I saw video of Mohnish Pabrai presentation and Q&A with UCLA student investment fund (see here). There’s always something worth listening to when Mohnish talks. In the present talk, Mohnish talks about a key to success, and that being the importance of aligning the inner self with […]
There is something to be said about skin in the game! I have been a Tesla bear for quite some time, for example see my comments on blog posts here, here, here and here. However, thus far I have been reluctant to put my money where my mouth is. And, buoy has it been fortuitous! […]
Last week was a reminder of why it is high time to take some hard look at ones investment portfolio and decide what level of risk it contains and how best to hedge against an impending correction. As I noted in my first article in the series of Portfolio Hedging, the best analogy for why […]
For the regular followers of this blog, I want to apologize for the hiatus. I started writing this blog on Aug 18th, however family and work priorities meant, I just could not muster the time to finish writing the article. The following chart is quite stunning! The chart represents the price of QQQ, an ETF […]
In one of the very first articles for the year, I did a pre-mortem analysis on my investment portfolio. The very first question I tackled was, What will I do and how will I feel if stocks reverse from these levels and fall 10%, 20% or 30%? I presented data supporting the evidence that >30 % […]
We are already six months into the year 2020! Unless you live on Mars, there was no avoiding terms like COVID-19, Corona Virus, Black Lives Matter, Pandemic, and Recession. Amidst all of the chaos that has been 2020 thus far, there are some good things that have transpired as well, see here to see the […]
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