Series 1 – Part 2
Investment Philosophy
Welcome again, friends! Believe me, it is a sheer pleasure to talk to you again!
We are overwhelmed by the love and support you have shown to this blog series. Let us continue where we ended, and we hope whatever we share with you further will help you decide what kind of investor you really want to be—a Choice Investor or a Chance Investor.
In my 25 years of professional career, if there is one most important lesson I have learned, it would be that “You never stop learning.” Every day and every moment, you can learn something new.
So always keep your ears, eyes, and mind open to new things. It doesn’t matter whether it is good or bad, right or wrong, or correct or incorrect; you must be open to new things. Later, you can filter out the bad from the good, the wrong from the right, or the incorrect from the correct and apply it in your application.
So, with this in mind, let us start with the investment philosophy that we all at Safal Fintech believe in and think is the most prudent. We strictly adhere to this investment philosophy. This investment philosophy is solely our belief and principle.
So, this blog is not to prove any other theory or anybody else right or wrong. It is just a tool to tell you what we have experienced in our professional lives of managing people’s money prudently across the world.
In brief, it means that there are four stages when it comes to managing your wealth. Let us explain them briefly.
We believe that every individual must go through this eternal cycle to manage their wealth prudently and wisely while growing it constantly. Everyone in the investment universe is focusing on asset classes, types of investments, or return on investments. We, at Safal Fintech, believe you need a principle or a formula to grow your wealth.
It doesn’t matter which asset class, product, or investment type you are investing in. If you follow the above formula, you will grow your wealth nonetheless. Products and asset classes become important only when you have the right formula.
So, let’s now discuss those four stages very briefly.
The first is to accumulate some wealth. In order to invest somewhere, you must have some kind of accumulated sum. It could be monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or even annually. But there has to be a sum that you want to start. This accumulation of monies is called “Savings.”
The second is to take these savings and place them in a different asset class to generate a higher alpha (or to generate a return higher than your savings’ returns). This stage is called “Investment.”
The third stage is multiplying your wealth. Once you are exposed to investing in different asset classes, you must shift between them to again generate a higher alpha than your investment stage. This is called “Wealth Multiplication.”
The fourth is preserving or protecting your wealth. Once you have generated a substantial return on your investment, you must also know how to book your profits so that you can preserve or protect your principal investment to either generate a higher alpha again or to make sure that you have a protected corpus you can systematically eat out of. This stage is called “Wealth Preservation / Wealth Protection.”
One must always remember that the buck doesn’t stop here, or rather, “the clock doesn’t stop here.” It is prudent to keep this philosophy in a constant, eternal loop so that your money keeps working prudently and wisely for you, even when you eat out of it.
Hence, the infinity or eternity symbol is at the core of this philosophy to remind you that this world is infinite. Hence, you should never limit yourself.
That’s it for now. In the next part of this series, we will delve deeper into each stage and further explain this eternal concept of prudent money management.
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Arupam Dasgupta
Customized Wealth Portfolio Designer
MD & Co-founder, Safal Fintech Private Limited