1. How can I benefit from MarketStar?
We are primarily a trading company, with ground-level experience in Indian capital markets, retail, apparel, food supply chain, agriculture, education, financial services and real estate business. Our experience and presence in multiple industries gives us a ground level sense of the India economy, which we have successfully used to make/delay/avoid investment decisions in different asset classes. You can benefit from us in two ways:
(a) India Investment Consultation Service, which will be specific to your investment needs and we will give you specific recommendations on the best India investment options available for you.
(b) India Investment Newsletter, which is a weekly newsletter to shares our views on the market direction and specific buy/sell trades we are doing at our end, which you can also do for your portfolio.
2. Can your India Investment Consultation Service benefit any investor worldwide?
Yes, we believe this service can benefit any investor worldwide who wants to invest in India — both retail and institutional investors, who may already have stock brokers in place and they just need quality inputs for their India investment portfolio.
3. How much capital is needed to operate a portfolio like yours?
We believe each of our portfolios can be operated well with any amount greater than Rs 100,000 (Rs 1 lakh). There is no higher limit on the portfolio size, i.e, one could also run a Rs 100 million (Rs 10 crore) portfolio with the same constituents, but the relative weightage of constinutents will change as the portfolio size increases. For example, we may have only 5% weight for Nifty ETF in a portfolio of Rs 100K, but we may have 25% weight for Nifty ETF in a portfolio of Rs 100 million, and we may have to achieve this through Nifty Futures. If you want to run an even bigger portfolio size, then we can advise you on a portfolio with higher weight for constituents with higher trading volumes, which can allow you to enter/exit positions without damaging the opportunity.
4. How do you manage business risks and market risk?
Risk is primarily managed by diversification of investments, into stocks, commodities, gold, and maintaining adequate cash levels. A part of the portfolio is linked with agri-commodity trading in India, which reduces capital market risk. The biggest risk comes from Black Swan events, which have very low probability, and which nobody can see till the event plays out. In our experience, the only way one can such sudden downside risks, is by holding adequate Put options in case our portfolio is loaded with stocks, and rapidly moving into cash when market prices break below some our pre-determined levels. While the Indian economy is robust and will continue to grow, the Indian capital markets react to the global capital markets on broad market sentiments, and therefore we take stock of the global situation regularly.
5. What kind of returns are possible from MarketStar’s consultation or trading service?
With stock trading, our goal is to do better than NIFTY on annual basis. As you know, investment returns are subject to a wide range of market risks. While we can not guarantee any specific return, we can say that our trades/investments in different asset classes have given 100-400% return in last 5 years, and we continue to see some high-potential investment opportunities in India that can give great returns in the next 5-10 years. You are welcome to contact us for more details.
