My guest for today is Raunak Onkar. Raunak is a Co-Fund Manager & the Research Head at PPFAS Mutual Fund. After a Bachelors in IT & an MBA in Finance, Raunak started his capital markets journey with PPFAS, over a decade ago. As an analyst he covers a variety of businesses & sectors and is a regular speaker at PPFAS' Monthly Financial Opportunities Forum series on Youtube (https://ppfasfof.com/).  This episode is brought to you by multipie.co where we believe Investing is an ignored life skill. Multipie is building up a platform where people can form communities and learn, share , collaborate on growing their wealth using the right tools. We want your hard earned money to work for you Show notes: 0:00 - Intro 1:29 - Raunak’s Journey with PPFAS 3:30 - PPFAS’s investing ideology 5:20 - Relevance of valuation and P/E multiple 10:04 - How can one build conviction in their investing strategy? 14:09 - Understanding “modern monopolies” and “moats” 18:25 - Navigating through the information overload 24:43 - Raunak’s views on behavioural investing and biases 31:30 - Why should one invest in global equities? 33:20 - How can a retail investor invest internationally? 34:30 - Learnings from analysing international equities 37:29 - Raunak’s outlook for Indian markets 40:44 - PPFAS’s notification on increasing exposure to smallcaps 41:38 - PPFAS’s risk management strategy 44:06 - The battle of Capex heavy v/s Platform businesses 46:40 - How does Raunak learn from literature and movies? 51:11 - How to journal your thoughts optimally? 52:46 - Reading books effectively and quickly 55:10 - An investing stereotype Raunak wants you to break 57:31 - Who does Raunak look up to? 59:45 - Raunak’s advice to his 20yr old self References Thinking fast & slow On Life & work of Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky - Undoing Project Gerd Gigerenzer's books Gut Feeling Risk Savvy Good video presentation on key concepts of Gerd's work - CFA Institute Video Film about honing our heuristic ability - Sully Deep Work by Cal Newport Calling B******t - the book Calling B******t - the course (also available on Youtube) Investment Checklist by Michael Shern - The Book Mathew Walker - Why we sleep - The Book