Category Archives: Book summary

Investment Philosophy of John Maynard Keynes

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Anil Tulsiram

Why read about Keynes Investment Philosophy? Under Keynes’s tenure as First Bursar of King’s College— a period that encompassed the 1929 market crash, the Great Depression, and World War II— the discretionary portfolio of the King’s College grew through Keynes’s … Continue reading →

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How to Learn

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Anil Tulsiram

For long time I was planning to do a blog post, but somehow was finding it difficult to take out time. So finally decided to take a short cut. I am posting some compilation of thoughts from my EVERNOTE. Its not … Continue reading →

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What Long Term Investors Can and SHOULD LEARN From Short Sellers

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Anil Tulsiram

Note: Unless otherwise stated, entire text in this blog post is from two books 1) Art of Value Investing 2) Art of Short Selling . David Einhorn quotes are from his book Fooling Some of The People All the Time. My comments are in … Continue reading →

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Ralph Wanger Part II: Have your own investment Philosophy, Value vs growth investors

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Anil Tulsiram

You can read part I of this post here. Note: Unless otherwise stated, the words in italics are extracts from the book “A Zebra in Lion Country”  IMPORTANCE OF HAVING YOUR OWN INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY “An investment philosophy is important not in … Continue reading →

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Ralph Wanger- Identify LT trends, Buy Small Cap & Aim only Multi-Baggers

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Anil Tulsiram

Note: Unless otherwise stated, the words in italics are extracts from the book “A Zebra in Lion Country”  Ralph Wagner’s investment philosophy have two essential elements 1) Buy small companies 2) Identify a major trend, and then buy companies that … Continue reading →

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Return Per Unit of Time Invested

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Anil Tulsiram

In some ways the title of this post could be misleading. The other way to say the same thing would be to ‘Time is precious, decide WHAT NOT TO DO’ Time allocation is as important as capital allocation Free capital is … Continue reading →

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Free Capital – amazing journey of some private investors

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Anil Tulsiram

I learnt about this book through Rohit Chauhan’s tweet. What makes this book interesting is that, most of these investors are a) full time investors managing their own money b) Started with small capital base and now are c) Independently wealthy. … Continue reading →

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How to get Lucky

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Anil Tulsiram

My near and dear ones might be surprised to find a post by me on HOW to GET LUCKY. Being an atheist, for long I have the denied role of luck or gave it much less importance than I should have. … Continue reading →

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The Battle for Investment Survival

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Anil Tulsiram

Let me start with the summary of general negative feedback for “The Battle for Investment Survival” by Gerald M. Loeb on Amazon. This book is not very well organised [True. Author has basically compiled various articles he has done over a … Continue reading →

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