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Opinionated professor in his virtual classroom.

New Delhi, India
Joined March 2011
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Dear investor: You are surrounded by liars. Rating companies, Auditors, Corporate managers (through their PR machines), Regulators (when they enable loose accounting), and Government (certainly in context of debt numbers, and maybe elsewhere too). You are on your own. Beware.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
A development: I resigned from MDI today after teaching there for more than twenty exhilarating years. Thank you @MDIGurgaon . #gratitude
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
One of my guru’s sent this to me...
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Lockdown effect. Down 21 kgs. Fasting, yoga, walking, and sleeping (properly)- four of the oldest practices (think Lindy) that cost nothing but have immense health benefits.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
I just bought one share in CCD. As a tribute to VG Siddhartha. I know it's circuit down and may go down a lot more but a share now costs less than a cup of coffee...
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Their names? Smallcap, midcap, and largecap. 😀
@cctvidiots
CCTV IDIOTS
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The three stooges 😂
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
2 years
Why two people can differ on valuations.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
While looking at class material for students I came across this gem from Warren Buffett on Donald Trump. 😆😆😆
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
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3 years
Year end message for friends here: Don’t be obsessed by the power of compounding beyond a point.😃😃😃Wishing all of you a wonderful 2021.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
2 years
Many companies (including this one) are primarily in the tax collection business. That’s their main activity. That they also make and sell cars or cigarettes or alcohol or even petrol at the pump should be ancillary objects of these companies’ Memorandum of Association.
@rushlane
RushLane
2 years
Toyota Earns About Rs 40k Per Fortuner – Dealer 1 L, Govt Rs 18 L
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
7 years
Had the privilege and honor of having lunch with Charlie Munger and Howard Marks today.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
6 years
Got to know yesterday that @MDIGurgaon students (2016-18 batch) voted me as best professor. This was the 10th time. Big thanks to my students. 😊
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Required behaviour from concentrated portfolio investors. 😀
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Recently met a friend from JNU who never studied math. Told her half of Indians earn less than the median income. She got very upset and said it's so unfair! 😆🤣😂
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Accounting is the language of business. If you want to be a fundamental investor then you need to know accounting. This is a wonderful course offered by a great instructor with a great sense of humour. Do this course.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
The CEO of a large, multi-billion dollar IT company comes on the screen. He is looking distraught. In a 3-minute video, which will destroy many people, he confesses that his company has been a front for a large scale money-laundering operation. He provides graphic details...
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
I've read Sapiens once and done the online course twice. This is my favorite video in the course. I keep going back to it. If you haven't read the book or done the course, and need a nudge, watch this one clip on the Power of Myth and Imagined Realities:
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Electric Vehicle chargers spotted in Delhi.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
In some industries, it takes just a few quarters to go from: Kabhi kabhi lagta hai apun hi bhagwan hai to Sab mar jayenge sirf trivedi bachega 😲
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
If you are an investor, and haven't read Scott Fearon's Dead Companies Walking, then please do yourself a favor and read that book.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Transcript of talk at TIA workshop on Bullet Proof Investing on Feb 8 in Chennai. Thank you @TIA_Investors and @shyamsek for inviting me.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
2 years
Thinking exercise: What’s the logic behind this? Don’t search on the net before replying.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
This I agree with. While 100 Baggers by @chriswmayer is a fabulous book, there is a need for literature on building the conviction to hold.
@contrarianEPS
Contrarian EPS
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@NeerajMarathe i think we need more books on sticking than picking
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Isn’t this astonishingly wonderful?NBFCs were supposed to be structurally inferior to banks because, among other reasons, unlike banks, they didn’t have access to low-cost funds. And now an NBFC is providing money to a bank to “bolster its capital base.”
@NDTVProfitIndia
NDTV Profit
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RBL Bank raised Rs 2,025 crore from 40 investors, including Bajaj Finance to bolster its capital base.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Indian banker goes to borrower for recovery.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
6 years
A tip. You can go to and click on each year's video link and then copy-paste text to a separate file. I did that and now have 25 years of meetings transcripts for my own reading.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
6 years
Two more teachers spotted in Omaha.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
There are many ways to pay a tribute to Siddhartha. I just wanted to share mine with you. Later today, I will be meeting an old friend. In CCD. Over a cup of coffee... May god give peace to VG Siddhartha's soul and strength to his family including the CCD family.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Unit economics/banana $ Businessman: Margin 1.50 Entrepreneur. Gross margin 4 Conversion to banana shake: 2 Retailer margin: 1.50 Instagram, Facebook, Google marketing:0.50 Brand ambassador: 0.50 Logistics: 0.20 Pilferage: 0.20 Website: 0.10 Loss/banana: $1 MUST IPO SOON! :-)
@hvgoenka
Harsh Goenka
5 years
The difference between businessman and entrepreneur !
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
10-K Diver threads everyone should read...
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
For the young generation of investors who are experiencing pain of this type for the first time: Endure it. Once you experience and survive 440v shocks (market-wide down circuits) a few times, these minor 220v ones (5% declines) won’t hurt so much anymore.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
6 years
As I type this, has had only 2,932 views. Should be more. A lot more. Thanks @arpitranka and Prashant.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
2 years
It’s bamboo one way or another.
@ChanderBhatia01
Chander Bhatia
2 years
Equity investing is like a Chinese Bamboo Tree. Many times, it doesn’t give returns for 4-5 yrs and suddenly in the 6th and 7th yrs it moves up like a rocket. Investing tests patience and conviction. Your experiences?
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
2 years
Midnight @FLAMEUniversity . Outdoor class in awesome weather.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
6 years
A life insurance company (an institutional investor with the longest duration money) buys, sells, sells, sells, sells, buys, sells, buys, buys, sells, sells, sells, sells, buys, buys, and sells the same stock (Bata) in a span of 1 year. Starts with a stake of 1%. Ends with 1.1%
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
9 months
@jitenkparmar Whenever someone talks about any shortage, what they really mean is that they can't get the resource at the price they are accustomed to paying. And they are unwilling to raise the price to increase supply. But you know that already!
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
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2 years
Buy the
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
"History of Money Making" - Mr. Sriram Venkatakrishnan . Very fascinating talk. Parts of it will make you laugh.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
A new barber in town... It's a Saturday, so I hope you can also excuse the new pathetic poet in town...😆
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
7 years
Why I teach...
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Some news on personal front. My daughter’s startup venture went live today. . She took no funding from dad or mom or anyone else. Just funded this from cash flows from another venture (again no funding from anyone) which did fine during Covid.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Banking stocks in India.
@ICC
ICC
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Caption this 😅
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
What a fun, night class today. Cracked lots of jokes. Laughed with students. Spoke about how the opposite of a good idea can also be a good idea by citing contradictory, but valid concepts of Graham and Fisher. Teaching is such a blessed profession.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 months
A lumpy 15% CAGR is better than a steady 12%
@historyinmemes
Historic Vids
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What does this teach you about life?
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Summary: Sab mar jayenge. Bas Trivedi bachega.
@NDTVProfitIndia
NDTV Profit
4 years
Vodafone CEO says India venture is at risk of collapse Read more:
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Bruce Flatt's Brookfield is investing heavily in India. If you haven't watched his talk at Google, I highly recommend that you do. My favorite part of the talk starts at 18:39 where Bruce describes his investment in the Bear Swamp Pump Storage.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
Don’t take credit risk. Stick to quality companies. Hmmmm
@iRadhikaGupta
Radhika Gupta
3 years
Don’t take credit risk. Equities not for less than 5 years. Expected equity returns of 10-12%. Stick to quality companies. Arb funds for 9-12 month money. The standard advice I’m giving in family and friends groups. Who usually want a more exciting stock tip. #boringisgood
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
A suggestion: Please read (or re-read) a section titled "Don't be afraid of buying on a war scare" in Philip Fisher's "Conservative Investors Sleep Well."
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 months
In flow while talking about cash flow
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
72 kms in one day of ownership. Ather 450x is giving a lot of joy to my neighbourhood. @atherenergy
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
By shifting the burden of tax on dividend from payer to payee the government has, perhaps unintentionally, told companies to cut their dividend payout ratios.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
Will continue teaching and collaborating with some of the best minds in Indian Fin. Collaborative projects being planned with @Moneylifers , @suchetadalal , @iRadhikaGupta , @jatin_khemani , @FLAMEUniversity , ex student Rohith Potti, @jaycee77 at CFA Society India and @BloombergQuint
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Note sent to my BFBV students:
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
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An example of a business with excellent profit margins and extraordinary fixed asset turns. Also no or negligible receivables as all sales are in cash or UPI or cards. Inventory funded with payables so there will be negative or negligible working capital. You don’t need the…
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
2 years
Colgate-Palmolive India, P&G Hygiene & Healthcare, and Gillette India shareholders be like…
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Omg, my course on Forensic Accounting and Corporate Governance is starting soon and I have so many new cases this year. It's an avalanche!
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
7 years
Even though I don’t short sell, I am learning so much about corporate BS from this excellent book. . Recommended.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Ma'am @nsitharaman , please don't take this personally but people who live in glass houses...
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
1 year
Investing is a probabilistic game. Some bets are going to go bad no matter how good the process, due diligence, etc. But when they go bad it's important to distinguish between bets gone bad because of bad luck or a bad process that needs fixing.
@rohitchauhan
Rohit Chauhan
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I have been investing for 25+ years and have a lot of experience There is no single year, where i don't do something dumb A good year is when the number of dumb decisions are less
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
6 years
Buffett once wrote something along the following lines: It’s far safer to steal a large sum with a pen than a small sum with a gun.
@NileshShah68
Nilesh Shah
6 years
In lighter vein
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Trying to time the market...
@krazyfrog
shy hulud
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trying to get the waiter's attention
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
One student in my Forensic Accounting course wrote about manipulation in many large companies and how it pushes the retail investor into the corner. My (slightly edited) response:
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
Makes total sense.
@sugataghoshET
Sugata Ghosh
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Can't think of a better name
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Indian Express covered my daughter @garima_bakshi ’s startup ( ). She quit her job in NYC for doing this startup, which, despite the pandemic, is doing fine. Proud of her.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
2 years
Leverage is dangerous
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
2 years
There is never just one cockroach in the kitchen. This is factually incorrect. If you take out all but one of the cockroaches from the kitchen, then there will be just one cockroach in the kitchen. 🤣
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Failure for them is not just about the money. We investors lose money. We take a loss and we move on. Many entrepreneurs find this hard. Because they have invested more than money. Blood. Tears. Toil. Sweat. And when it doesn't work out it becomes too much for some of them.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Putting all the mini lectures in a Vimeo showcase.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Ignorance of Peltzman effect: People will open multiple bank accounts to escape from TDS on large cash withdrawals. Individuals with large taxable income will set up companies to provide consulting assignments to their erstwhile employers. And gold smuggling will go up.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
One reason many corporates are not borrowing money anymore is that they have realized that they actually have to return the money one day. Their WACC calculations have gone haywire.
@NDTVProfitIndia
NDTV Profit
4 years
SBI’s Rajnish Kumar expressed concern at “muted” growth in corporate credit despite the government’s measures to stimulate the economy from a six-year low.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
He may had many faults and done things that he shouldn't have. But he gave us CCD. A home grown brand. A place to go to and discover that a lot can happen over a cup of coffee. Today, I want to own a piece of it. As a memory to Siddhartha. Not as an investment. But as a tribute.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 months
That feeling when you realize you're getting old: your own former student becomes a professor and invites you to give a couple of guest lectures at IMI, where you began your journey as a teacher 27 years ago.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
A friend, when talking about his high portfolio exposure to a highly leveraged industry, said: “I have avoided 95% of the landmines.” I said: “Well you used a battlefield metaphor but on the battlefield, if you avoid 95% of the landmines, you’re still dead.”
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Too many crude jokes on twitter today.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
1 year
That name. That acronym... No position
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
It’s still going on. I see it in many excel models. Including mine.
@IndiaHistorypic
indianhistorypics
4 years
1989 :: Comedy Serial Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne Begins On Doordarshan
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
7 years
Question 01: What's so special about this disclosure by Buffett in 2014 annual report of BRK? Question 02: How often do you see such candor?
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
6 years
This thread designated as required reading for my students.
@jposhaughnessy
Jim O'Shaughnessy
6 years
1/ I have been a professional investor for over 30 years. What follows is some things I think I know and some things I know I don’t know. Let’s start with some things I know I don’t know.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
6 years
Whenever someone comes up with a complex structure that would exploit some loophole in some law, for a monetary benefit that looks tempting, this is what I visualise...
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Does anyone know of any good library in Delhi that would accept a few dozen books on economics, finance, investing etc as gifts? I need to create some space in my study.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
7 years
A participant at my July Flame workshop sent me his beautiful notes. Here are some excerpts with his permission.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
2 years
Help is needed from fellow value investors! Am working on a new course @FLAMEUniversity which might be titled "Case Studies in Business and Investment Analysis." As of now, just making a list of various themes/patterns. Here is a work-in-progress list:
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind. @ThomasSowell
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Is mainstream media (MSM) biased? Yes indeed. How do we know this? We know this by using many methods. One is by carefully studying the "language" used by MSM.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
4 years
Thrilled to announce that @amitmantri will soon be taking a class at MDI in my Forensic Accounting and Corporate Governance class.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
“Credit is like oxygen. When either is abundant, its presence goes unnoticed. When either is missing, that’s all that is noticed.” That famous Buffett quote. As of now, oxygen crisis is deadlier than credit crisis.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
3 years
The whisper which says that you should be fearful when others are greedy is being muffled by the loudness of “Abhi toh party shuroo hui hai.” 😊
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Out of all the material on ancient Indian spiritual thought assimilated by me over the years, these are the two I ask my MBA students to see...
@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
@patrick_oshag If you haven’t seen these two lectures on Mandukya Upanishad, I highly recommend them: Part 1: Part 2:
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
7 years
One of the first rules of business is complaining is not a strategy. U have to work with the world as U find it, not as you would have it be
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
A thread on why you should read @ThomasSowell . Especially useful in context of what’s happening in India now. All words are those of the man himself. Depending on your ideology, they will resonate with some of you and will make others angry...
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
6 years
Read this book yesterday. Left a deep impact. Recommended.
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
5 years
Strong parallels with investing. If you want real safety, you have to pay for it - often in terms of sacrificed returns. Robustness or anti-fragility almost always costs money. Just ask yield chasing bond investors.
@j9900j
JJP- P for parody
5 years
A #Volvo car was hit from back by a #baleno and the picture will speak for itself... safety of the car is important than having apple car play or jazzy colour
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@Sanjay__Bakshi
Fundoo Professor
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Quite profound actually…
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