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Samir Arora's eight golden lessons in investing

- Samir Arora

Samir Arora is the founder of Helios Capital Management (he, along with two others, founded it in 2005) and a fund manager there with three decades of experience. Earlier, he was associated with Alliance Capital, where he received various recognitions during his time as the Head of Asian Emerging Markets. In PMS AIF World's webinar, Arora gave eight golden lessons to remember. Here is a summary of them. To watch the full webinar, visit https://bit.ly/30hcuol.

1 DO NOT FOOL YOURSELF OR THE PUBLIC

Sticking to one particular style of investing forever is fruitless. Arora criticised fund managers who claim that they do not look at inflation, interest rates and the market. While it is difficult to predict them, one can never ignore them while investing. He says, "You have to be sensitive to everything and the worst thing you can say to yourself is I don't look at the market".

2 DO NOT USE HINDSIGHT ANALYSIS TO PREDICT THE FUTURE