Rakesh Jhunjhunwala 's Portfolio

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala India, Investor BSE, NSE

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Ahead of Nifty by 9.82% , 2 yr 2 mth track record

Just think of investing in the Indian stock markets, and the first name that clicks our mind is Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. All the investors follow this axiom "look before you leap", when they consider Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's view on a particular stock before entering into it. This is the sole reason why Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is called as the Guru investor of the Indian stock markets. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is one of the highly acclaimed and most respected equity investors in India. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala manages his own investor portfolio which is purely based on the fundamental analysis and value investing strategies. Rather Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and Value investing can be used as synonyms. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala stock picks the low price tagged stocks from the scrap by recognizing its true worth for his long term investments. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's choice of stocks involve the unloved small-cap and mid-cap stocks. For this quality of his, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is often called as Warren Buffett of India. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala portfolio is published in the newspapers or announced on the televisions. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala himself shares his stock picks or any changes in his holdings through media. Most value investors in India aspire to be like Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and regard him as the value investing guru. But Rakesh Jhunjhunwala considers Mr Radhakrishna Damani as his guru (mentor) and a best friend. Our very own Bear, Mr Shankar Sharma, the managing director of first global and the biggest rival of the Bull, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala introduces Rakesh Jhunjhunwala as a classic bottom-up stock picker, who gets into companies with strong managements and/or compelling long-term stories and then holds them through market cycles. Further he says, "I can't see too many flaws in Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's make-up as a long-term investor." Rakesh Jhunjhunwala says his fascination with balance sheets began young. "Since childhood I had love for stocks,"he says. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's father was an ITO and invested a bit in the stock markets and discussed his holdings with him. Rakesh jhunjhunwala further says,"I was a very curious child, so I was always quizzing my dad." He said,"Instead of quizzing me all the time, why don't you find out yourself." This was the beginning of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's journey into the real stock markets soon after he graduated from the Sydneham College. Rakesh Jhunmhunwala is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and investor by profession, one of the very few successful persons who could make their hobby, their profession! Rakesh Jhunjhunwala entered the market in 1984, aged 25, with a 5,000-rupee investment in the iron-ore exporter Sesa Goa. Just three years later, those 5000 bugs turned into 10 million rupees. Hats off his value investing strategies. For this Rakesh Jhunjhunwala also shares the title "sage of omaha". With the experience of not more than 25 years in the stock market, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala started his own entity named Rare Enterprises at Nariman Point, Mumbai. As a tribute to all his investment gurus, the walls in Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's office bear line drawings of Mr. Warren Buffet, George Soros, John templeton, Peter Lynch and many more. Currently Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is India's 45th richest man holding nearly 1.2 billion $. As a part of his duty towards his society, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala has pledged that he will donate one fourth of his wealth during his lifetime through Rakesh Jhunjhunwala foundation. He assures $ 1 billion by 2020. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala also offers his helping hand to Agastya International Foundation and the State Of Philanthropy In India periodically.