Why Investing is Easy - Chapter#1

 We have been planning to write a piece with this title for sometime now. It so happened that last week I was speaking to a good friend from Investing community and he shared a experiance with me. He chanced upon a Doctor and learnt that there are from the same place. So the conversation boiled down to - "What puts food on the plate question". So One was a doctor and another was a full time investor/advisor. The Doctor was quick to point out that - Being Investor is such a easy profession unlike others, One can easily make 30-50% returns every year. My investor friend would only laugh since he knows that he is the not 1st and he will not be last to "think" that investing is Easy. 

But of course, Investing is easy. Let me put the facts out here.. Lets say this is Jan 2019 and you started simply started SIP of 10K in a Mutual Fund that invests only in Top 100 stocks or lets say just did a one time purchase of about 1 lac. Here is how the results will look today - 


In either cases, you would have made excellent returns just by doing nothing. Oh Hold on.. not by doing nothing but by actually starting a monthly investment or doing a one time investment and letting it run. But Alas, look around and see how many of you have actually been able to "Do that". Isnt it the easiest thing to do to make Money? 

Well, Investing might look easy but it is actually not.. In our next blog, We will tell you why most of us did not invest in Jan 2019 and those that invested still did not get these kind of very good returns. 

Meanwhile you think about What Mr. Warren says about Investing - 
Write to you all next week to tell more about why it is Not Easy! 


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  1. Anonymous28 January 2024 at 09:11

    Thulashi Raman: thanks to you guys that I was able to start my investment journey in Nov 2019. Going well as of now by God's grace.

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