Teaching

the Value
of Value
Investing
Vishal Khandelwal
Safalniveshak.com

What Safal Niveshak is All About?

An initiative to
educate and
empower
small investors to
make intelligent
and independent
stock market
investing decisions.

The Big Idea

Help investors
minimize what
causes them to
take dumb risks.
Focus on
teaching what
NOT to do in
stock market.

Foundation:
Applying
Lessons from
Buffett and
Munger

Being a Learning Machine

I constantly see people rise
in life who are not the
smartest, sometimes not
even the most diligent, but
they are learning machines.

They go to bed every night

a little wiser than they were
when they got up and boy
does that help, particularly
when you have a long run
ahead of you.
~ Charlie Munger

Best Thing A Human Can Do

The best thing a

human being can do is
to help another human
being know more.

~ Warren Buffett

I Teach, Therefore I Learn

How Safal Niveshak Runs?

No business plan. Keep working at what we are

good at, and trust serendipity

100% boot strapped All work i.e., website,

technology, writing, emailing, social media,
housekeeping, etc. handled in-house

2-member team (Anshul joined in Feb. 2015)

Complete focus on what can help the investor get

over his pain

Principles Unbiased, independent, brutally honest

Applying More Lessons from Buffett

Lose money and I will forgive you, but lose even a

shred of reputation and I will be ruthless.

The best defense in a tough economy is to add the

most you can to society. Your money can be inflated
away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

Do what youre passionate about. If you do this, there

will be few people competing or running faster than
you.

If you're in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you

owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other
99 per cent.

Using Value Investing to

Add Some Value to the Society

Its Been
Challenging
It's easier to
fool people than
to convince
them that they
have been
fooled.

~ Mark Twain

Offline
Initiatives

First Value Investing Workshop

Bangalore, April 2012

Workshops Over the Years

Workshops in 3 years 35+

Participants 1000+

True Wealth Workshop, 2014

8 Cities, 12 Days, 7,000 KM
Ludhiana

Jaipur

Lucknow
Patna

Indore
Vadodara
Surat

Raipur
Nagpur
Bhubaneshwar

Value Investing Meetups

Launched in Sept-2015.
Idea is to get investors across cities connected through
regular, informal meetups to learn from each other.
Good, initial feedback, with 130+ investors meeting up
in Bangalore and Mumbai in Sept and Oct 2015.

Online Initiatives

 Started in July 2011, written thrice a week

Free Newsletter on Value Investing, Behavioural
Finance and Business Analysis
658 posts written so far, including interviews with
people like Prof. Sanjay Bakshi, Chetan Parikh, and
Jae Jun
Idea is to educate in a fun and free way

Journey So Far
18,000

# No. of subscribers for

The Safal Niveshak Post
12,500

6,100
1,800
10
Aug-11

Aug-12

Aug-13

Aug-14

100% Word of Mouth

Now

Mastermind Value Investing Course

Launched in July 2013. Premium, Online Course in Value

Investing, Behavioural Finance and Business Analysis
1,200+ students across 5 batches and 15 countries
7 modules, 50 chapters, PDCs & Videos, Mastermind
Forum for Q&A and discussions.

Value Investing Almanack

Launched in Feb-2015. Premium
Newsletter on Value Investing,
Behavioural Finance and Business
Analysis
On the lines of OID License-Based
Viewership
375+ subscribers,
Sanjay Bakshi

including

Prof.

Safal Niveshaks Bouquet

2012

2013

2015

2015

Some Recognition
I am sure that any investor (including
experienced ones) in Indian markets would
benefit from Vishals work. I certainly have.
~ Prof. Sanjay Bakshi
If you want to become a serious, long-term
investor, Safal Niveshak is truly a gold mine for you,
filled with great perspectives and wisdom.
~ Mr. Chetan Parikh

And Then

What Next for Safal Niveshak?

Stock Recommendation Service
Money Management
Model Portfolios

A lot of success in life and

business comes from knowing
what you want to avoid.
~ Charlie Munger

A School of
Value Investing
and
Multidisciplinary
Thinking

It Will Be Challenging
But the idea of Safal
Niveshak would remain
to convince investors
that they have been
fooledand how they
can educate
themselves to avoid
getting fooled in the
future.

Connect with Vishal

(If you still wish to!)

Blog: www.safalniveshak.com
Twitter: @safalniveshak