The greatest wonder
People don’t think of survival as much as they should. This blog provides examples to prove that.
Author: Vikas Kasturi
I am a value investor, based out of Bengaluru, India. I use this website to write about my thoughts and ideas.
You can reach me at vikasmkasturi@gmail.com.
Slack – the good bad word
Slack is like margin of safety. Slack helps countries, companies, portfolios and individuals to survive.
Strong swimmers
Survival is far more important than performance. To survive, we must negate all risks that threaten survival. One way to survive in the stock market is to have adequate diversification.
Everyday Opportunity costs
Opportunity cost is one of my favorite ideas. In this blog, I am sharing some everyday examples of opportunity costs.
Economics for the irrational man
Classical Economics assumes humans make decisions rationally. But in reality we are all messed up. Behavioral Economics explains our biases and why/how we make irrational decisions all the time.
Moments of happiness
This is blog # 125 and is a guest post by my friend Bharath Mahadevan. In this he talks about the philosophy of his life.
Susan and Sally
We see in others what we ourselves are.
Loss cutting
In investing as in life, occasionally things will not go as per our plan. What should we then do? Cut our losses and move on, no matter how hard it is. This is what lucky people do.
How to remain unlucky
Charlie Munger’s favorite idea was inversion. In fact, he even gave a speech titled: Prescriptions for a miserable life. In the same vein of inversion, I have tried to prescribe how one can remain unlucky.
Fogged Windshield
This is blog is about selling is much, much harder than buying. I have mentioned anecdotes of successful investors and their selling related mistakes.
Interest upon Interest 