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Accelerating Financial Freedom
Financial Freedom means not having to worry about money anymore. Learn how you can achieve financial freedom and how Wright can enhance your journey.
Top Myths About Momentum Investing - Busted!
Momentum Investing is simply defined as the strong predictive power of past returns influencing future returns. Unfortunately, a momentum-based investing approach can confuse investors, and so creep up several myths about Momentum Investing. In this post, we will set the record straight and bust som
Rising Interest Rates make Banks Attractive
The banking sector should be at the centre of investor focus right now. Not only is the rising interest rate environment favourable for the banks, but several catalysts make banking extremely attractive
Technical Analysis to Crystal Gaze the Markets
“Technical Analysis works precisely because people are watching it. And if people care, then I care” - John Bollinger.
Evaluating Sectoral Performance
Most sectors in the Indian economy have struggled in the last six months of the bear market, and in these challenging times, the outlook for the sectors changes quickly. In this post, we evaluate the sectoral performance and the outlook.
All about bear markets. How to navigate one?
Let’s no longer play around with it and call a spade a spade. We are in a bear market! Spoiled by bull markets most of our lives, many have no idea what bear markets are, how long they last, and what to do with our money when in one. In this post, we will enlighten you all about them.
Managing Expectations
“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets” - Peter Lynch
Sector Rotation & Business Cycles
“If you are in the right sector at the right time, you can make a lot of money real fast.” - Peter Lynch
We don't talk about bear markets, no, no, no
The crash has unnerved everyone! Are we in a bear market? What happens next? How to manage risk? Lets find out
Inflation & It's Impact
The markets have been routed over the past month after the central banks raised rates.Why are these central banks hiking rates and destroying our portfolios? The answer is INFLATION. In this post, we will look at inflation and try to predict the way. So gear up!
Invest in Atmanirbhar 🇮🇳 theme
Launching the Wright New India portfolio that invests in the Atmanirbhar Bharat theme - stocks favored by PLI, China+1 and Make In India
Can we Invest in Atmanirbhar 🇮🇳 theme?
Even with the recent volatility in the Indian market, the stocks that have stayed resilient are the atmanirbhar India stocks. The term ‘AtmaNirbhar’ has evolved from a buzzword to a solid profitable strategy.
Key Investor Questions
In the past few months and recent weeks there have been too many announcements to absorb. Furthermore, the global macro factors are also adding to investor ambiguity. So it makes sense to answer a few of the burning investor questions.
Falling Rural Demand vs Rising Agri Commodities
The rural economy that was just recovering from supply shock during the pandemic has been hit afresh by the commodity inflation fueled by the Ukraine-Russia crisis. Can the momentum in agri-commodity prices revive it?
Heard about Factor Investing?
Factors are indicators that can help describe stock returns. They are a extremely important tool to understand the market and deliver outperformance.
Decoding the Fund Flow
FIIs have sold equities worth $19.82 billion since October 1 last year. In 2008, FIIs sold $15 billion of shares during GFC. Yet, more surprisingly, the DIIs have kept the index stable. Why is this happening?
The Wild Commodity Price Rise
There has been a massive upsurge in crude, natural gas, metals, and agro commodities after the beginning of Ukraine's invasion by Russia. Let's explore the pressures and opportunities from the crisis.
The markets have been tough. Let’s dig in...
Is the market volatility making you jittery? 🥶 Let's keep our long-term investor hats on 🎩 and try to understand the economics of war, the impact on India, and portfolio guidance. Let's dive in.. 🏊
Serving Consistent Market Returns
At Wright Research, we believe that the market does not remain the same all the time. And as the market itself shifts its behavior, allocations within our portfolios also need to turn. This is why we like to follow a multi-factor approach in our stock selection and asset allocation.
Market Overview - Key Investor Questions
As volatility kicks in to the market with rising inflation in the US and rising Crude prices, we answer some key investor queries
Budget 2022 - Pivot your Portfolio the Wright way!
This is a Capex boosting budget which is prudent in other expenditures as the FM looks to contain the fiscal spending while enhancing growth. Understand how to pivot your portfolio as the market turns green.
Market Volatility Decoded
In this week’s blog post, we try to analyze the distinct reasons that alarmed the markets in the past 5-7 trading sessions. We also attempt to highlight a silver lining among this chaos and conclude with a performance report of our portfolios.
What to expect in the run-up to the Budget?
The 2022 Budget will be looked at from two critical angles. First, the expectation of a boost to economic growth through capital expenditure, and second, the ability to contain fiscal deficit in the increasingly uncertain global economy
Sector Deep Dive: Infrastructure
The Indian economy relies heavily on the infrastructure industry. This sector is critical to India's overall growth, and the government has placed a high priority on enacting regulations that would assure the country's building of world-class infrastructure promptly
New Year, Key Investor Queries
Market can scale new highs if the Budget delivers on growth: Sonam Srivastava of Wright Research
Decoding Algo Trading + New Products 🚀
Algorithmic trading has revolutionized stock market trading. It has provided traders with a competitive advantage to improve their skills and outperform traditional trading.
One Year of Momentum - Investor Playbook
These days, momentum investing is all the rage. However, this rage is not irrational as a momentum approach is designed to profit from the bull market and, we have witnessed a dream bull run phase.
The Burning Investor Questions
Is the market overvalued? Are we nearing price correction? Is this the right time to double down on investments? What about the FED tapering and rate hikes?
2 Years of Wright Research
Celebrate the 2 year milestone with us! Use coupon code 2YEARS for 30% discount
Markets & Macros - July 2021
Once a month, it makes sense for us to take a pause and look at the markets & macros to make sense of all the noise. Here we look at markets, our performance and hits & misses
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Accelerating Financial Freedom
Financial Freedom means not having to worry about money anymore. Learn how you can achieve financial freedom and how Wright can enhance your journey.
Top Myths About Momentum Investing - Busted!
Momentum Investing is simply defined as the strong predictive power of past returns influencing future returns. Unfortunately, a momentum-based investing approach can confuse investors, and so creep up several myths about Momentum Investing. In this post, we will set the record straight and bust som
Rising Interest Rates make Banks Attractive
The banking sector should be at the centre of investor focus right now. Not only is the rising interest rate environment favourable for the banks, but several catalysts make banking extremely attractive
Technical Analysis to Crystal Gaze the Markets
“Technical Analysis works precisely because people are watching it. And if people care, then I care” - John Bollinger.
Evaluating Sectoral Performance
Most sectors in the Indian economy have struggled in the last six months of the bear market, and in these challenging times, the outlook for the sectors changes quickly. In this post, we evaluate the sectoral performance and the outlook.
All about bear markets. How to navigate one?
Let’s no longer play around with it and call a spade a spade. We are in a bear market! Spoiled by bull markets most of our lives, many have no idea what bear markets are, how long they last, and what to do with our money when in one. In this post, we will enlighten you all about them.
Managing Expectations
“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets” - Peter Lynch
Sector Rotation & Business Cycles
“If you are in the right sector at the right time, you can make a lot of money real fast.” - Peter Lynch
We don't talk about bear markets, no, no, no
The crash has unnerved everyone! Are we in a bear market? What happens next? How to manage risk? Lets find out
Inflation & It's Impact
The markets have been routed over the past month after the central banks raised rates.Why are these central banks hiking rates and destroying our portfolios? The answer is INFLATION. In this post, we will look at inflation and try to predict the way. So gear up!
How to Choose the Perfect Portfolio?
To choose you first need to understand your requirements and then filter our portfolios based on the guidelines in this post
Invest in Atmanirbhar 🇮🇳 theme
Launching the Wright New India portfolio that invests in the Atmanirbhar Bharat theme - stocks favored by PLI, China+1 and Make In India
Can we Invest in Atmanirbhar 🇮🇳 theme?
Even with the recent volatility in the Indian market, the stocks that have stayed resilient are the atmanirbhar India stocks. The term ‘AtmaNirbhar’ has evolved from a buzzword to a solid profitable strategy.
Key Investor Questions
In the past few months and recent weeks there have been too many announcements to absorb. Furthermore, the global macro factors are also adding to investor ambiguity. So it makes sense to answer a few of the burning investor questions.
Falling Rural Demand vs Rising Agri Commodities
The rural economy that was just recovering from supply shock during the pandemic has been hit afresh by the commodity inflation fueled by the Ukraine-Russia crisis. Can the momentum in agri-commodity prices revive it?
Heard about Factor Investing?
Factors are indicators that can help describe stock returns. They are a extremely important tool to understand the market and deliver outperformance.
Decoding the Fund Flow
FIIs have sold equities worth $19.82 billion since October 1 last year. In 2008, FIIs sold $15 billion of shares during GFC. Yet, more surprisingly, the DIIs have kept the index stable. Why is this happening?
The Wild Commodity Price Rise
There has been a massive upsurge in crude, natural gas, metals, and agro commodities after the beginning of Ukraine's invasion by Russia. Let's explore the pressures and opportunities from the crisis.
The markets have been tough. Let’s dig in...
Is the market volatility making you jittery? 🥶 Let's keep our long-term investor hats on 🎩 and try to understand the economics of war, the impact on India, and portfolio guidance. Let's dive in.. 🏊
Serving Consistent Market Returns
At Wright Research, we believe that the market does not remain the same all the time. And as the market itself shifts its behavior, allocations within our portfolios also need to turn. This is why we like to follow a multi-factor approach in our stock selection and asset allocation.
Market Overview - Key Investor Questions
As volatility kicks in to the market with rising inflation in the US and rising Crude prices, we answer some key investor queries
Budget 2022 - Pivot your Portfolio the Wright way!
This is a Capex boosting budget which is prudent in other expenditures as the FM looks to contain the fiscal spending while enhancing growth. Understand how to pivot your portfolio as the market turns green.
Market Volatility Decoded
In this week’s blog post, we try to analyze the distinct reasons that alarmed the markets in the past 5-7 trading sessions. We also attempt to highlight a silver lining among this chaos and conclude with a performance report of our portfolios.
What to expect in the run-up to the Budget?
The 2022 Budget will be looked at from two critical angles. First, the expectation of a boost to economic growth through capital expenditure, and second, the ability to contain fiscal deficit in the increasingly uncertain global economy
Sector Deep Dive: Infrastructure
The Indian economy relies heavily on the infrastructure industry. This sector is critical to India's overall growth, and the government has placed a high priority on enacting regulations that would assure the country's building of world-class infrastructure promptly
New Year, Key Investor Queries
Market can scale new highs if the Budget delivers on growth: Sonam Srivastava of Wright Research
10 Investing Resolutions for 2022
It’s that time of the year when everyone’s making resolutions! So why not resolve to be a better investor next year?
Happy New Year: Markets in Review
As the year ends and we look back, we can declare that 2021 was one of the good ones! Check out our review and projections for next year.
Decoding Algo Trading + New Products 🚀
Algorithmic trading has revolutionized stock market trading. It has provided traders with a competitive advantage to improve their skills and outperform traditional trading.
One Year of Momentum - Investor Playbook
These days, momentum investing is all the rage. However, this rage is not irrational as a momentum approach is designed to profit from the bull market and, we have witnessed a dream bull run phase.
How to value high growth companies?
This is a much needed conversation in the current high growth IPO frenzy
India Inc Q2FY22 Earnings Snapshot
The cumulative net earnings of 42 Nifty50 businesses that have released their results so far increased by 19.2% YOY to Rs 1.12 trillion in Q2FY22. The consistent earning growth is indeed a new high.
The Growing Craze of IPOs in India
72 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) were launched in India between January and September, raising a total of $330.66 billion. In addition, 33 IPOs are planned for this year, including Nykaa, Mobikwik, Paytm, and the well-known LIC.
This Diwali, add sparkle to your portfolio with Wright Research.
With Diwali approaching, now is the time for investors to assess their investment portfolio and add some luster to it with some exciting investing themes.
Markets at a Discount
The markets rising rapidly over the last month took a nosedive last week, with small and mid-caps losing more than 5% as Nifty crashed 2%.
Markets at 60k!
In this month's markets & macros review, we celebrate Sensex hitting 60k!
To SIP or not to SIP
Every investment expert talks about SIPs so that investors might think they are the cure to all ills. But is investing systematically really as great as it is made out to be?
Wright Momentum
With the uncertainty in August behind us, the markets are back in their glory this September, and the (W)right way to get a flavor of the trending market is the Wright Momentum portfolio!
Market Pulse - Deep Dive
There's uncertainty in the equity markets and churn happening from cyclical to defensive sectors. Investor nerves are frayed!
The Burning Investor Questions
Is the market overvalued? Are we nearing price correction? Is this the right time to double down on investments? What about the FED tapering and rate hikes?
2 Years of Wright Research
Celebrate the 2 year milestone with us! Use coupon code 2YEARS for 30% discount
Markets & Macros - July 2021
Once a month, it makes sense for us to take a pause and look at the markets & macros to make sense of all the noise. Here we look at markets, our performance and hits & misses
Quality minus Junk
Quality Investing in owning the best companies for the long term. A quality company is one which is safe, profitable, well managed and growing.
How to handle panic in the markets?
The crash in Adani stocks on Jun 14th shook our portfolios, In this post we talk about this scenario and how we handled it.
What happens to your momentum portfolio in times of risk?
As the subscribers are growing in our high risk high return momentum portfolio, there are increasing number of investor queries and concerns about what happens to these portfolios in the times of risk.
Trailblazing Smallcaps
Small caps have been on the rise and they've been skyrocketing! What could be the reason for smallcaps to rise at a time like this?
How much do you pay for your Wright portfolio?
The Wright Research portfolio look extremely attractive when you look at our smallcase pages but there costs built in. In this post we explore how much the performance decreases due to costs.
Riding the Tide of The Covid-19 Second Wave
As the world is fighting the second wave of Covid19. How does this translate to conditions of the Indian Financial Markets?
Building a winning portfolio with multi factor strategies
How do you make a winning portfolio that can grow your wealth consistently and at low risk? We find the answer to this question in multi factor strategies.
Pairs Trading Strategy - Nifty & Bank Nifty
In this blog we look at the maths behind pairs trading strategy and demonstrate the implementation an actual pairs trading strategy between Nifty & Banknifty
Bond Yields, Commodities, Inflation & Equity Markets
In the last couple of weeks we have heard these terms - bond yields, commodity price rise, inflation while watching the equity markets countless times. Let's try to understand where we stand now.
Asset Allocation To Protect and Grow Your Investments
One of the biggest problems new investors face is placing all their eggs into one basket or stock, hoping to get rich quickly. What often happens is that new investors “blow up” their portfolio and st
GuruSpeak | Meet Sonam Srivastava
Sonam tries to predict the market regime for the next month using artificial intelligence models
Rebalancing your portfolio post-budget: the data-driven way!
In this blog, Sonam talks about how tactical planning and execution driven by data can curate an Ideal Portfolio in the ‘post-budget’ period. Here, she focuses on how data plays an important role and how the new budget can teach us to plan accordingly for the future.
Wright is open for new subscribers!
Your favourite quant advisor is back up and open for business. Now as a corporate SEBI registered investment advisor! So if you have been waiting to start your subscription with us, now is the time!
Rebalancing Updates: December 2020
Last month was a good month for the Wright portfolios. Our tilt towards smallcap stocks and financial stocks worked in our favour.
Wright ⚡️Momentum
Wright is launching a Momentum basket as a free for all research product, this portfolio invests in trending stocks
Wright Views: Post Elections 2020
Monthly portfolio update and views on the US election results
Trading US Elections with Data Science
US Elections are the one of most important events for the markets. There is a lot of fear in the market on the ongoing trend in the equity markets getting broken after elections
Wright ❤ Smallcaps
A satellite portfolio to participate in the smallcap rally
2020: What lies ahead?
As 2020 progresses in a frenzy of fear and greed, we review of equity markets and macros and evaluation of the upside potential and uncertainties in the rest of 2020!
One Year of Outperformance
Last week, Wright completed one year of offering our flagship portfolios to investors via smallcase! This first year of our journey has been the most incredible
Wright Views: August 2020
Monthly newsletter for August commenting on the markets, economy, equity factors & our portfolio
An Analysis of Direct Mutual Funds
An Data Science based analysis of Direct Mutual Fund
Economic Impact of India-China trade war
Let us understand the economic implications of India-Chine trade war on your portfolio.
Investor Risk Profiling
A risk profile is an evaluation of an individual’s willingness and ability to take risks. A risk profile is important for determining a proper investment asset allocation for a portfolio.
Macro Regime Prediction Model
In this post we use macro economic variables to model stock market risk and returns
Investing for Women
Women typically have a different approach to life as well as investing than men. The traditional gender roles have attached the role of caretakers to women and have made women low-risk takers compared to their male counterparts.
Covid – 19: Impact, Recovery & Investment Strategies
Once again, India and the world are in the face of a crisis like no other.
Factor Models
Factor models are financial models that use factors — that can be technical, fundamental, macroeconomic or alternate to define a security’s risk and returns.
Performance Update: Nine months and a market crash!
We completed 9 months of live performance and survived a market crash!
Portfolio Optimization Methods
When constructing a multi-asset portfolio, coming up with the strategy to allocate weights to the portfolio components is a very important step in the process.
Three month performance update
We have completed 3 months since we started our multi asset tactical portfolios!
Regime Shift Models — A Fascinating Use Case of Time Series Modeling
Regime shift models are a powerful use case of time series modeling in the financial markets
Dynamic Asset Allocation with Wright Research
The Multi Asset Tactical smallcase by Wright Research invests in the best assets by combining stocks selected via Smart Beta factors with Bond & Gold ETFs
All you need to know about the Multi Factor Tactical portfolio
This is a dynamic portfolio that allocates to equity smart beta factor baskets along with bonds, liquid and gold ETFs
Macroeconomic perspective on the Indian Economy
Here, we try to provide a snapshot macroeconomic perspective on the Indian economy driven by data but not necessarily using data science.
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