Shailesh Kumar, MBA

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The Myth of Efficient Markets: Why CAPM Is the Perfect Tool for Herds, Not Outliers

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CAPM Keeps You Average. Value Investing Makes You Wealthy. Most investors unknowingly handicap their potential by relying on models designed to reward conformity. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) may work well if your goal is to match the market, but it does little for those aiming to outperform it. In fact, it’s built on […]

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The 5 Alternative Asset Classes That Could Outperform the S&P 500 This Decade

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Investors Are Quietly Stepping Off the Beaten Path You’re not imagining it. Traditional 60/40 portfolios are underperforming, and the S&P 500 is increasingly top-heavy with a handful of mega-cap stocks masking broader market fragility. As inflation proves sticky, interest rates remain elevated, and geopolitical tensions disrupt global trade, the case for alternative asset classes has

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Kelly Criterion Position Sizing: Avoid the Trap of Overbetting and Underbetting

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You already know that your edge comes from buying undervalued stocks and letting them work over time. But even with a sound process and solid research, you keep second-guessing your trades. You hesitate when it’s time to enter. You trim winners too early. You panic when a position dips. The problem isn’t your strategy, it’s

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How the Humble Current Ratio Shields You from Pain in Small Cap Value Stocks

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When you invest in small caps, you often buy uncertainty at a discount. These companies can be temporarily out of favor, misunderstood, or just plain ignored by the broader market. That’s the opportunity. But it’s also the risk because the waiting game can be long. Value can take months, sometimes years, to surface. And if

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15 Mid Cap Value Stocks Graham Enterprising Investors will Love – May 2025

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Benjamin Graham defined what it means to be a value investor. The classic Grahamian value investing play relies on undervalued assets on the balance sheet, coupled with significant margin of safety. A dyed in the wool value investor patiently waits for Mr. Market to realize the correct value of these assets, and then reprice the

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How to Bootstrap a Business From Scratch (and Why It’s the Ultimate High-ROI Investment for Long-Term Investors)

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If you’re serious about compounding wealth, bootstrapping a business isn’t just an entrepreneurial path, it’s an asymmetric bet with outsized upside. You invest time, discipline, and a little capital. In return, you create a high-margin income stream, long-term asset appreciation, and, perhaps most importantly, complete control. For investors frustrated with limited alpha in public markets

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Is Now the Time to Start Treating Bitcoin as Digital Gold?

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You’ve seen it happening. Gold is surging. Fiat currencies are fraying. And quietly but decisively, Bitcoin is stepping into the spotlight not as a speculative gamble but as a monetary alternative with teeth. In a world where trade wars, inflation, and eroding trust in government currencies are reshaping capital flows, it’s time to ask: is

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9 Fast Growing Companies with Stocks You Can Buy at a Reasonable Price – May 2025

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Buffett taught us to seek quality at a reasonable price. He’s happy to sit tight with moaty giants compounding wealth over decades. Peter Lynch, on the other hand, made GARP investing his battlefield, tracking down fast growers that hadn’t yet captured Wall Street’s imagination. His legendary 13-year run at Fidelity’s Magellan Fund saw an annualized

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Earnings Lie. These Cash Flow Ratios Tell the Truth

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You Can’t Rely on Earnings, But You Can Trust the Cash You know the game. A company hits the earnings estimate, maybe even beats it by a penny, and the stock pops. But what if that “beat” was a mirage, puffed up by accruals, non-cash adjustments, or accounting gimmicks? As a long-term investor, you can’t

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The Hidden Risks of BDCs No One Talks About (Until It’s Too Late)

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Business Development Companies (BDCs) can look like dividend gold mines. The headline yields are often double or triple what you get from blue-chip dividend stocks or bond funds. But as you already know, the market doesn’t hand out high income without attaching strings. The problem is, these strings are often buried in footnotes, cloaked behind

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