Strategy Series

Our articles specific to the six investment strategies we offer. Whether you invest with us or are looking to invest, these
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MeritorQ Advisory
The Risks of Owning an Individual Stock

The majority of the listed companies in India fail to beat the market cap weighted index. In this newsletter, we discuss why the odds are stacked against an individual investor owning a small set of stocks. Over a longer investment horizon, returns of benchmark indices as well as the net wealth created in stock markets […]

MeritorQ Advisory OCT 10 . 6 MIN READ
Why Fundamentals and Valuations Matter
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MeritorQ Advisory AUG 29 . 5 MIN READ
Why MeritorQ has 30-45 stocks?
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MeritorQ Advisory

The Risks of Owning an Individual Stock

The majority of the listed companies in India fail to beat the market cap weighted index. In this newsletter, we discuss why the odds are stacked against an individual investor owning a small set of stocks. Over a longer investment horizon, returns of benchmark indices as well as the net wealth created in stock markets […]


Nov 21 . 9 MIN READ READ MORE
MeritorQ Advisory

Why Fundamentals and Valuations Matter

MeritorQ’s strategy of picking high-quality undervalued companies delivers better risk adjusted returns by taking advantage of mispricing associated with erroneous investor expectation. Such a strategy also delivers positive excess returns (i.e., returns in excess of the benchmark, in this case the BSE 500) around earnings dates further reaffirming the mispricing hypothesis. In fact, a significant […]


Oct 10 . 6 MIN READ READ MORE
MeritorQ Advisory

Why MeritorQ has 30-45 stocks?

The terms ‘quantitative’, ‘systematic’, and ‘rules-based’ are often used interchangeably as representing an investment approach that is perceived to be in direct opposition to what a ‘fundamental’, ‘discretionary’ or ‘stock-picking’ approach may be. While both quantitative and discretionary strategies can pursue the same objective and both can be fundamentally oriented, quantitative strategies are different from their […]


Aug 29 . 5 MIN READ READ MORE
MeritorQ Advisory

Rebalancing is Often Misunderstood Yet Necessary

Periodic rebalancing or re-alignment of the MeritorQ portfolio is as necessary as watering a plant periodically to help it grow – do it too often and the plant may rot; on the other hand, never do it and the plant dies. In MeritorQ we identify quality yet relatively undervalued companies (our newsletters Forensic Accounting Using Quant […]


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