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Part 5: Process or How the heck do I Invest in Equity Successfully?
5.9 Build a Wealth-creating Stocks Portfolio - Part 1
How do you build a portfolio that will deliver high compounding returns but keep risk at a manageable level? Do companies perform differently in different economic and market cycles? How can you use this to build your portfolio? How do you set your criteria to identify opportunities to do this effectively over time? What is required to build a large-size portfolio with confidence?
Quality-at-Reasonable-Price is the Investing Process that we recommend. It is the most suitable for retail investors and all DIY investors and you have seen the reasons why. You have also seen how to answer the 3 essential questions before you invest in a stock. Now, how do you build your portfolio using all that you have learnt, because the asset that is going to take you to your goal of financial freedom is your portfolio, more specifically your equity portfolio.
Choosing the First Gate in the Investment Opportunity Management System
The first gate is about selecting the universe of stocks you are interested in. There are 5000+ listed stocks and all you need is 25 to 30 in your portfolio. The first gate serves a different purpose from the subsequent QVPT-Quality, Valuation and Price Trend gates and this is critical to building your stock portfolio.
This is apparent from the preferences investor show. Some are very conservative and invest only in safe large cap stocks: they maybe sacrificing potentially higher returns even when they need it to reach their goals. Others are aggressive and invest predominantly in small cap stocks to earn higher returns and suffer pangs of anxiety when the market corrects. It does not have to be an either-or choice and that is achieved by selecting the first Gate wisely.
Stocks exhibit a difference in how much returns they deliver and how volatile (price fluctuations) they are. After much...........Read More
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Our Vision
To become India’s most trusted, research-powered fiduciary advisory platform—where every investor, regardless of experience, can make calm, confident, and well-reasoned investment decisions.
What Makes MoneyWorks4Me Different
Fiduciary-first advisory model.
As SEBI-registered IAs, we are legally and ethically bound to act in the best interests of our clients. We do not sell or distribute any financial products. This ensures our guidance is 100% unbiased and conflict-free.
Deep fundamental research + robust valuation discipline.
Built on more than 15 years of equity research, our framework combines quality assessment, intrinsic value estimation, and a sensible margin-of-safety approach.
Process—not predictions.
We don’t rely on guesswork or market timing. Instead, we focus on asset allocation, risk management, and long-term compounding.
Technology + Human Intelligence.
We believe a combination of both is essential for investing success. We constantly innovate and upgrade in-house tools, financial X-rays, and portfolio analytics so that our team of analysts and advisors are equipped with the best.
Partner with Clients.
We follow a DIWM (Do-It-With-Me) approach where we partner clients in setting goals, financial planning, educating on our investing process and share decision-enabling resources transparently with our clients who retain control on execution.
Our Approach: Ensuring compounding work its magic on client portfolio.
MoneyWorks4Me ensures this through:
Investing in stocks, mutual funds, debt, and gold
Quality-at-Reasonable-Price way of investing in stocks
Constructing Direct Stock Portfolios with Core, Booster, and Amplifier stocks
A Mutual Fund Portfolio that delivers consistent out-performance and meaningful diversification (low overlap)
Periodic review and rebalancing
Clear Buy-Sell-Hold, and Position-sizing frameworks
MoneyWorks4Me method for rating and ranking mutual funds for SIP
MoneyWorks4Me rating and ranking of funds for SIP is available to subscribers only. Moneyworks4Me is not a rating and
ranking agency, however it is required that users have a way of selecting funds and building a Portfolio. The method used by it are described below to enable users to understand the logic behind the rating and ranking Subscriber will find more details on this in the
various content made available from time to time. In case you need more please write to besafe@moneyworks4Me.com
MoneyWorks4Me rates and ranks mutual funds based on the following data-driven system:
Performance Consistency: This is measure based on whether the fund has beaten the benchmark index consistently. For
this we compare the 3-year rolling returns of the fund with the benchmark for a minimum of 5 years and preferable 10
years. The period of rolling is one month and holding period is 3 years. Fund are color-coded Green on Performance when
the fund beats the benchmark more than 90% of the time. It is Orange if it beats 80% to 90% of the time and Red if less
than 80%. Funds with less than 5 year data are color-coded Grey.
Quality of Portfolio Holding: Moneyworks4Me has color-coded stocks as Green, Orange and Red based on whether the
company's performance has generated a ROCE above a threshold level (cost of capital) over 10 years (minimum 6 years) and
generated positive Free Cash Flow. For Banks it checks whether ROE is greater than 15% and sales has grown over previous
year. Stocks that perform consistently on these combined metrics are color-coded Green (min score 14 out of 20), Orange
(between 8 and 14) and Red (less than 8 out of 20).
Fund are color-coded Green provided the portfolio has 70% holding in Green stocks but not more than 20% in Red stocks.
Funds with more than 20% Red stocks in the portfolio are color-coded Red. The rest are Orange funds
Funds ranking in screeners: Performance Consistency and Quality are two parameters used for ranking funds for SIP. The
ranking as follows GG, GO, GR, OG, OO, OR, RG, RO and RR.
With the same color-coded funds, the one with the higher Average 3-year rolling returns (over 5 to 10 years), the number
that appears in the Performance tag, ranks higher.
Here is the summary:
The third tag Upside Potential is not relevant for SIP. It is relevant for lumpsum investments in Mutual Funds.
Make an informed decision for Stocks
Invest using an intelligent system with powerful data-driven tools that help you identify opportunities and make informed buy-hold-sell decisions
You can make an informed decision based on:
Q : Quality :- Q Very Good
Q Somewhat Good
Q Not Good
V : Valuation:- V+UnderValued (UV) V Somewhat UV
V Fair Value
V Somewhat OV
V+ OverValued (OV)
Buy quality Stocks when they are available at reasonable prices and supported by an upward price trend and Sell when they are Overvalued using the Decizen Rating System. Covers 3500+ stocks
Make an informed decision for Funds
You can make an informed decision based on:
P : Performance (%)* 14 Very Good
14 Somewhat Good
12 Not Good
Less than 5 year data
Q : Quality of Holding Q Very Good
Q Somewhat Good
Q Not Good
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